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From: rogers@iris.ucdavis.edu (Brewski Rogers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: How do you restore the CList vector... (Was: Re: Fast Scrolling)
Keywords: copper, multitasking, hogging the system
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Date: 1 Dec 89 10:19:15 GMT
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In article <3909@puff.cs.wisc.edu> pochron@gumby.cs.wisc.edu (David Pochron) writes:
>the Copper list vectors.  Does anyone know what structs (and fields) the
>lowest-level copper list vectors are stored by the OS which eventually get
>written to the hardware copper vectors? It seems the only way to get the
>display back is to just re-write them manually after I'm done stealing the
>chips.
> pochron@gumby.cs.wisc.edu  |

I *think* the right way to do it is:
oldview=GfxBase->ActiView;
...
screw with copper lists...
...
LoadView(oldview);

That's the way I do it, anyhow.


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