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- From: aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Jan T. Kim)
- Subject: How can I "redirect" VDI graphics?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.214741.191331@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
- Organization: Regional Computing Center, University of Cologne, F. R. Germany
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 21:47:41 GMT
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- Hi all Atari technicians,
-
- one or two months ago it was mentioned in some context that I
- don't quite remember that one should not u the setscreen()
- function (XBIOS 5) in GEM progams at a all, as well as other
- tricks to direct the graphics generated by VDI calls to somewhere
- else than the "real screen". There certainly are good reasons to
- refrain from using such techniques, but then again, they can be
- very handy and useful too. For example, it is possible to make
- the VDI draw in a virtual screen of an (almost) arbitrary size,
- and then one can e.g. display this masterpiece in a window with
- scroll elements by blitting parts of the picture into the window.
- There has been a demo program doing this in the c't mag, issue
- jan. '91 if I'm not mistaken.
- Anyway, my question is if such a redirection can be done in a
- "clean" way. The only thing I can think of right now is writing a
- GDOS screen driver for that purpose but that is not only much too
- laborious for me to do, but it would also be unelegant as it
- would mean to re-invent all those VDI functions that are already
- there in the ROMs...
-
- curiously waiting for replies,
-
- Jan
-
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