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From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A. Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: offscreen grafports in Orca/Pascal
Message-ID: <43861@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Aug 90 23:49:51 GMT
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In article <1990Aug10.154457.17376@laguna.ccsf.caltech.edu> toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:

(Dave L says call OpenPort on a 170-byte chunk of memory)

>WHOA... is that 170 GUARANTEED or is there a better way to do it that doesn't
>require us to hard-code how big the grafport record should be?

The 170 is guaranteed, and there's no better way.  It's not going to change.
That would be a pain, since the Window Record structure is built around the
grafport structure.
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