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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: DragAsprite
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.004820.24354@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 00:48:20 GMT
- Sender: jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA)
- References: <1992Nov3.024724.26462@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> <19957@acorn.co.uk>
- Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
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- mhardy@acorn.co.uk (Michael Hardy) writes:
-
- >>*fx 162,28,3
-
- >Well, I've posted before explaining that this is not a good way to do it,
-
- Well, academically, it's not a good way to do it, but seing as how the
- default value is 2 and you want to set bit 1 (thus needing a final value
- of 3) this seems perfectly adequate. So long as you do the DragASpr fx
- call before changing any config. that uses the rest of these bits, you aren't
- doing any harm, and as this is a RISC OS 3.10 specific call, it seems
- like a perfectly acceptable 'hack' to turn DragASpr on for the one time
- in your life that it's necessary.
-
- And what do these other bits do? More important than the 'proper' way to
- set the bits, is to say "Here's a really convenient way to set the bits, but
- note that they will corrupt your ??? configurations"
-
- I mean, is there *anyone* out there whose byte has a value other than 2 or 3?
-
- And why isn't there a toggle in !Configure to do it "properly" anyway?
-
- Geez... it's like giving a guy a box of nails and no hammer, and then
- wondering why he's using a rock to hit the nails with... ;-)
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