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- From: Julian_Reschke@ms.maus.de (Julian Reschke)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: Sending objc_draw to a buf
- Message-ID: <A54433@MS.maus.de>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 09:23:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: MS.A54433
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- Conan Ford (Cford@debug.cuc.ab.ca) wrote:
- >Here's a suggestion:
- >
- >Set the logbase() to a 32000 byte buffer. That way all drawing will be
- >done there but the user won't see it. After each objc_draw, use BIT_BLIT
- >to save the drawn stuff into another buffer. After you are done, set the
- >screen back. Make sure to hide the mouse for this.
-
- (1) Might not work with third-party graphics cards.
- (2) Will definitively fail on any screen format other than the standard
- ST modes.
-