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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Decoding IFF
Summary: AmigaLibDisk185.
Message-ID: <767@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 9 Nov 89 05:35:05 GMT
References: <599@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA
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In article <599@milton.acs.washington.edu> zeno@milton.acs.washington.edu (Sean Lamont) writes:
>Firstly, How do you decode an IFF picture into raw bitmap data?

All the info you need is on Fred Fish disk #185.

>My basic goal is to get a bitmap display without being able to move the
>screen, and without the ugly "close" gadget.

Check out display.c on that disk.  It includes a method of hiding the close
gadget and the screen-to-back gadget.  Check out the algorithms in that
program; it proves that you don't have to take over the entire View just
to get a full screen display.
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