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From: stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Drawing in the Menu bar
Message-ID: <9377@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 24 Jul 90 20:44:10 GMT
References: <37238@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <37238@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> tj@cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson) writes:
>I'm sure that this has been tossed around here before, but I guess I missed
>it.  How do you draw in the menu bar?  I am writing an INIT that will put
>a SICN up in the menu bar (like OnCue, Multifinder, EasyAccess, etc...).
>I have set the port to the wMgrPort, and tried to CopyBits to it, but
>it is getting clipped.  Trying to change the ClipRect seems to have no
>effect.  Am I missing something obvious?  How do all you guys do it?

Setting the clipRect to the full screen doesn't do it (I haven't tried that)?
I've just created a private GrafPort and set the clipRect to full screen and
then drawn whatever I want.  I don't think I've had to do anything more
special than that...

steve

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