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In article <4863@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk> bsyme@cs.strath.ac.uk (Brian J Syme IE88) writes:
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>Given the number of file requesters out there, I'm sure someone must have
>come across this before.. RastPort's have a clipping rectangle facility
>used (amongst other things) to implement overlapping windows. Is it possible
>to 'and' in an additional clipping rectangle without disturbing Intuition's
>use of them (for gadgets, etc.) in a manner similar to Begin/EndUpdate()
>(or whatever it's called.)

See layers.library/InstallClipRegion().
>...oh, and what's been done in 2.0 to support variable font's, colors, etc.
>in string gadgets? Anything? Is it compatible with 1.3? Hmm?

String gadgets work correctly with proportional fonts.  There is an
extension structure StringExtend that allows you to specify what
font to use, as well as the pen colors for the text in the gadget.
1.3 will ignore this extension information.

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