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From: aries@rhi.hi.is (Reynir Hugason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: QuickDraw Scaling
Message-ID: <1745@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 1 Jun 90 09:14:01 GMT
References: <1861@cybaswan.UUCP> <8476@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: University of Iceland
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> That's a perfectly good way to do it; another is to draw stuff into a
> picture, using a picFrame rectangle of some size in the OpenPicture call,
> and then drawing the picture with a dstRect rectangle of a different size
> in the DrawPicture call.  QuickDraw will scale everything in the picture
> in such a way as to make the picFrame match the dstRect.

Better still - draw everything into an offscreen bitmap and copybits it
to the screen. That way you are in complete control of any scaling, etc...
and it isn't as slow :-( as PICTs.

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Mimir (aries@rhi.hi.is) - Aries, Inc.