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My 11 year old son and I am enthusiastic users of Microsoft Quick
Basic on the Mac.  (We are running it on a color LC).  For some of the
stuff we would like to do, we need access to color quick draw to use
the 8 bits of color (256 colors) available on this machine.  This
version of basic does not support this directly, nor does it in the
included libraries, nor does it in the supported ROM calls.  Thus, if
it is possible to do this at all, one would need to write code
resources (e.g. in Think C) to do it.

I have figured out how to use color quickdraw in Think C.  In order to
get more than the 8 colors available in the original quick draw, it is
necessary to use a color grafport, which you normally set up when you
set up your window.  Basic, as best I can tell, does not do this, thus
limiting you to old quickdraw.  I have thought of some ways around
this limitation (e.g. modification of the grafport in the existing
window) that I plan to try, but if anyone else has already solved
this I would appreciate hearing about this.

Thanks!


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David Steffen
Department of Cell Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston TX 77030
Telephone = (713) 798-6655, FAX = (713) 790-0545
Internet = steffen@bcm.tmc.edu