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From: holland@m2.csc.ti.com (Fred Hollander)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Alternate screen buffer ... How?
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Date: 20 Jun 89 19:48:44 GMT
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In article <227700007@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> cjr20670@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>you to pursue this because the Mac ]['s don't have alternate screen buffers
>and have different VBL routines to deal with multiple screens.  Oh, lastly,
>the simplist way to get a VBL lock is to just watch tickCount till it
>changes, then do what you need (like CopyBits).  This allows your program

I may be wrong, but, I don't beleive that this is necessary on Mac II's.

Fred Hollander
Computer Science Center
Texas Instruments, Inc.
hollander@ti.com

The above statements are my own and not representative of Texas Instruments.