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Re: DragAsprite

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From: Simon Burrows
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 10:22
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In article <19957@acorn.co.uk> 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,
>since you are also altering the state of seven other bits which control
>other aspects of FileSwitch and the Wimp. A better way is to read the byte,
>set bit 1, and then write it back. This is the program that I use:


Please can somebody with the RISC OS 3 PRM's look up what these other bits
actually do (assuming they are documented), and post a brief summary?

Thanks,


Simon.
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From: smb@cs.nott.ac.uk (Simon Burrows)
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Subject: Re: DragAsprite
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