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From: pepke@loligo (Eric Pepke)
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Subject: Re: window madness
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Date: 4 Oct 89 19:37:39 GMT
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In article <1989Oct4.184445.4500@agate.berkeley.edu> lippin@math.berkeley.edu writes:
>A safer way is to make your own port, using OpenPort.  This gives you
>the whole screen to play with, and you don't have to worry about the
>system depending on the port's fields in some obscure way.
...
>Finally, there is a tech note on this subject; it would be best to
>read it before trying any of this.

Tech note 194.  Basically you declare a port, open it with OpenPort, and set
its visRgn to the return value of GetGrayRgn and its portRect to the bounds
of the region.

That's roughly what it says, anyway.

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