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From: gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Question: Saving the Menu Bar
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Date: 6 Dec 89 20:01:04 GMT
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Reply-To: gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl)
Organization: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Virginia
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In TeXShell, which shamelessly borrows code from Moshe Braner's
generic DA code, I save the menu bar by knowing that it's the
first 380 longwords after the start of the screen, which it
gets from Physbase().

Now, obviously, this is a dumb thing to do in the days of bigger
screens. So what's the best way to save the menu bar? I could try
getting the height of the font, and assume the menu bar is smaller
than 2 character heights, and then blit it into a buffer. Or I could
try doing something strange with window creation to see how close to
the top of the screen I can put a window.

What's the best, most portable way?

Thanks in advance.

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Greg Lindahl