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- Apple II
- Technical Notes
- _____________________________________________________________________________
- Developer Technical Support
- Apple IIgs
- #72: QuickDraw II Quirks
-
- Revised by: Dave Lyons May 1992
- Written by: Dave Lyons & C. K. Haun <TR> November 1989
-
- This Technical Note points out some things things you need to watch out for
- when using QuickDraw II, especially with FastPort-aware and Shadowing modes.
-
- CHANGES SINCE NOVEMBER 1990: Removed some obsolete information on ScrollRect
- and on shadowing. Noted that DrawPicture in 6.0 is now compatible with
- FastPort mode. Added a warning about making QuickDraw II calls while
- QuickDraw II is not started.
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- DON'T CALL QUICKDRAW II WHILE IT'S INACTIVE
-
- Most QuickDraw II functions behave unpredictably if you call them while
- QuickDraw II is inactive, so watch it! Don't make QuickDraw II calls while
- QuickDraw II isn't started, except as documented. GrafOn and GrafOff are
- okay. (And so are QDStartUp, QDVersion, and QDStatus.)
-
-
- FASTPORT-AWARE ANOMALY
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- Before System 6.0, when the FastPort-aware bit is turned on in the MasterSCB
- parameter to QDStartUp, DrawPicture did not notice changes in the pen pattern.
- If your application does not require 6.0 and uses pictures, either directly or
- indirectly (i.e., by printing to the ImageWriter driver), you may need to
- leave FastPort-aware mode turned off to get the expected behavior.
-
-
- FASTFONT AND LARGE PIXEL MAPS
-
- FastFont does not work correctly when drawing past the first 64K of a pixel
- map. If you are drawing text that uses FastFont (i.e., Shaston 8), you can
- avoid this problem by using a non-rectangular clipRgn.
-
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- DON'T SHOWPEN WHILE COLLECTING POLYGONS, REGIONS, OR PICTURES
-
- The Macintosh QuickDraw documentation permits calling ShowPen after an
- OpenPoly, OpenRgn, or OpenPicture call to cause drawing calls to contribute to
- a polygon, region, or picture AND draw to a pixel map at the same time.
-
- The Apple IIgs QuickDraw II documentation does not say you can do that. In
- some cases, it works, but it works "by accident" and it's not one of the
- things Apple tests or guarantees in QuickDraw II.
-
-
- YOU MAY NEED SETBUFDIMS!
-
- The call description for SetBufDims on page 16-215 of Volume 2 of theToolbox
- Reference is misleading. The note in the description states, "You only need
- to make this call if your application is going to use, or allow the user to
- choose, fonts that have unusually large values of chExtra and spExtra." This
- is not true; you need to call SetBufDims to adjust the clipping buffers for
- your application if you plan to use a clipRgn that has a greater width than
- the width you passed at QDStartUp.
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- SetBufDims sets the clipping buffer width as well as that of the text buffer,
- so if you plan to use a clipping region larger than the startup port width you
- must use SetBufDims.
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- Be aware that this call may be necessary even if your application does not
- ever set a clipping region or rectangle. Some toolbox calls assume that the
- clipping buffer size is correct based on the parameters passed to that
- routine. For example, if the locInfo you pass to CopyPixels has a width
- parameter that is wider than the width you passed at QDStartUp, CopyPixels may
- fail. A safe rule of thumb is to make sure (possibly by setting) that the
- width parameter in the buffer dimensions is the same or greater than the
- widest width in the locInfo structures passed to routines that use them.
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- Further Reference
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- o Apple IIgs Toolbox Reference, Volumes 1 and 3
-