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From: ifar355@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David H. Huang)
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Subject: Re: 5.0.3 and Shadow.setup2
Keywords: GS/OS, 5.0.3
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Date: 26 Nov 90 16:48:07 GMT
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In article <17402@netcom.UUCP> avery@netcom.UUCP (Avery Colter) writes:
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Shadow.Setup was supposed to 
>take the menu boxes and draw them so that they have those cute little
>offset shadows that one sees on the Mackensteins which make the menu
>boxes look raised above the desktop background like so many glorious
>cabinet drawers.
>
>-- 
>Avery Ray Colter    {apple|claris}!netcom!avery  {decwrl|mips|sgi}!btr!elfcat
>(415) 839-4567   "I feel love has got to come on and I want it:
>                  Something big and lovely!"         - The B-52s, "Channel Z"

I think menus already have a drop shadow. The Shadow.Setup program is supposed
to speed up QuickDraw II by forcing programs to use memory shadowing from bank
01.

BTW, does anyone know what happens if another program is already using that
space? Orca/M seems to use memory in the 1/2000 area.

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