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From: cc100aa@prism.gatech.EDU (Ray Spalding)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Highlighting
Message-ID: <14202@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 27 Sep 90 21:31:14 GMT
References: <10290.2701c468@amherst.bitnet>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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In article <10290.2701c468@amherst.bitnet> djvelleman@amherst.bitnet writes:
>  Is there a routine I can call to highlight a region on the screen the way
>TextEdit does--using the user-selected highlighting color on a Mac II, and
>inverting black and white on other Macs?

I do the following (MPW 2.0.1 C):

#define	hiliteMode	0x938
#define	pHiliteBit	0

HiliteRgn(h)
	RgnHandle h;
{

	if ((*h)->rgnBBox.right - (*h)->rgnBBox.left > 1)
			BitClr((Ptr)hiliteMode,pHiliteBit);
	InvertRgn(h);
}

-- 
Ray Spalding, Technical Services, Office of Information Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332-0275
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