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From: shatara@memit.dec.com (Chris Shatara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: RE: 2 more //gs programming questions
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Date: 6 Jul 89 17:52:06 GMT
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>I tried this over the weekend and was VERY pleased with the speedup! One
>problem I had to overcome: the TML Pascal unit for QuickDraw incorrectly
>lists GetVisHandle as a PROCEDURE with a parameter, rather than a
>FUNCTION that returns the value. Using the original PROCEDURE returned
>garbage values. I defined a FUNCTION GetVisHandle2 of the proper type,
>bound to the same Tool. Then it worked fine.


I ran into the same thing and with the help of Dave Lyons found this
"feature" in TML pascal. I'm currently using an older version of TML,
V1.1 i think.  Does anyone one know if this was fixed in later versions?

If not, then it could still be there in the soon to be released V2.0.



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