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Article #9053Re: Custom Bit Maps & Intuition
From: Michael Portuesi
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1988 19:33
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 1988 19:33
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> *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.sys.amiga.tech: 7-Jun-88 Custom Bit Maps &*
> *Intuition Pete Goodeve@violet.berk (1031)*
> I can, of course, open a window over the whole screen to put my bitmap in,
> but then the screen is going to get its own bitmap too at the moment it's
> created, which is a lot of wasted space if it's high-res/four-plane, say.
I thought that backdrop windows used the screen's bitmap for their own bitmap.
Thus you could open up a backdrop window over the whole screen and not waste
any space. I believe this is the method the Intuition manual advises.
--M
Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University
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