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ADDENDA for version 1.2 6/10/88
Greetings from the author of the Director.
This file contains information that didn't make it's way
into the manual.
1. If you use the Director to load an overscan IFF image (one
that is larger than your WorkBench) and decide you want to
accept mouse input, you will find that the mouse will only
move over your overscan screen an area that corresponds to
the size of the original WorkBench. For example, if your
WorkBench is a standard 640x200 screen, and you use the
Director to load a 364x220 overscan image and turn the mouse
pointer on, you will find you can only move the mouse within
the boundaries of the smaller WorkBench.
If you find this undesirable, there are two ways you can correct
this. One, you can use the public domain program "morerows" to
create a workbench the same size as the overscan screen, or you
can use the option "opt m" with either the Director or the
Projector to compensate. Be advised however, that in version 1.2
of Intuition, the mechanism we are using to compensate the mouse
boundaries is unauthorized by Commodore, and may not work or may
cause unknown side effects once later versions of Intuition are
released. In other words, use this option at your own risk.
In addition, the options only operate when you are running the
Director or Projector from the CLI.
2. The examples on pages 4-17 and 4-19 each have the same couple of
errors in them. The BUFF parameter to the FADE commands should
be replaced with a -1, that is: FADE 1,-1,0 and FADE 0,-1,0.
-1 signals to use the current screen palette for fading, instead
of the palette for the buffer number contained in BUFF. In fact,
generally the FADE command should always have a -1 for the second
parameter, as it is rarely useful to fade with anything but the
screen's palette.
The other error in these two examples is that there should be
a SETBLACK 0 following the DISPLAY command on line 20. That is:
20 DISPLAY BUFF
SETBLACK 0
BUFF = 3-BUFF
Have Fun,
Keith Doyle, 6/10/88
Imported and spread out to the world by QUARTEX