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- From: arstokke@sn.no (Petter E. Stokke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Help wanted using LoadView()
- Date: 29 Mar 96 02:49:57 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <1530.6662T169T2850@sn.no>
- References: <4i01mn$r3g@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
- <Do3nH1.zv@cix.compulink.co.uk> <4j6tit$i7v@sunsystem5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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- On 25-Mar-96 20:53:01, Juergen "Rally" Fischer <fischerj@informatik.tu-
- muenchen.de> wrote:
- >In article <Do3nH1.zv@cix.compulink.co.uk>, jralph@cix.compulink.co.uk
- >("Jolyon Ralph") writes:
- >|> X-News-Software: Ameol32
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- >|>
- >|> > : If not, then, erm... ScreenToFront()? (don't laugh, it works :-)
- >|> >
- >|> > screentofront is slow.
- >|>
- >|> I know ;-) But it's easier than trying to explain how to do OS-legal
- >|> double-buffering in pre-3.0 systems...
- >|>
- >|> Jolyon
- >true. but pre-3.0 systems (i.e ECS) tend to have less cpu power.
- >And my A1200 is also to slow for screentofront().
-
- >I'd try someting like:
-
- >if (intuibase->firstscreen /* top visible screen */ == mydummyscreen)
- > do_loadview();
-
- >So Amiga-M will still make it possible for user to switch
- >screen even if you use laodview.
-
- Well, I didn't catch the start of this discussion, so what I'm saying
- might be completely off mark, but what's wrong with changing the bitmap
- pointer in the screen's RasInfo, and then calling ScrollVPort()? That's
- worked splendidly for me in several cases.
-
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