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- From: fischerj@informatik.tu-muenchen.de (Juergen "Rally" Fischer)
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- Subject: Re: Easiest Way To Open A Screen For Drawing To.
- Date: 30 Jan 1996 16:19:35 GMT
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- In article <4eieki$oeb@btmpjg.god.bel.alcatel.be>, barnhoorn@nlev00 () writes:
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- |> In article <4e9j5s$ron@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>, fischerj@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Juergen "Rally" Fischer) writes:
- |> |> barnhoorn@nlev00 wrote:
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- |> |> : In article <4e783a$93p@sol.ccs.deakin.edu.au>, podge@deakin.edu.au (AARON SEAN BROWNE) writes:
- |> |> : |> Just wondering what the easiest way to open a screen for drawing to is
- |> |> : |> .. Do I always have to open a custom bitmap and set up rasters and stuff..
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- |> |> : Just open a screen and then a simplerefresh-window on this screen.
- |> |> : That will do fine.
- |> |> mhm why open a window. Blitting to a rastport of a
- |> |> windowless screen is imho fastest method (except direct render).
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- |> True, but when you open a window on it first, your drawings are
- |> clipped automatically, which is a big advantage when you are going to
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- well, what is "drawing" ? imho doing gfx-functions on a rastport.
- a screen also got a rastport, so IMHO it's clipped.
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- Maybe drawing to a window is not slower if it isn't overlapped by
- another one/ But afaik it works also with screen only.
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- |> draw outside your bitmap's borders. Another advantage is that you can
- |> wait for Intuition-IDCMP messages in that window.
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- yes, agree.
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- If you only need 1 window, don't forget to make it simple refresh,
- else you'd waste mem for nothing.
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- |> Jaco.
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