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From: mykes@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Need help with blitter use
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.073749.16397@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 11 Jan 91 07:37:49 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.154254.22174@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
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In article <1991Jan9.154254.22174@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mfische@libws1.ic.sunysb.edu (Michael D Fischer) writes:
>I am doing some programming in C that requires scrolling a line of
>text along the bottom of the screen...  I *think* the best way to
>do this is with the ClipBlit() command.  Unfortunately, whenever I
>try to use it my amiga locks up.  Can someone help?  Or tell me where
>I can get some sample source code that I can look at?  Many thanks!
>
>Mike
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>-        Michael D. Fischer       |   greendog@max.physics.sunysb.edu   -
>-      S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook    |   mfische@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu     -
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If you use Text() to render into a GIMMEZEROZERO window, you won't need
anything as complex as ClipBlit().  The graphics routines automagically
clip to the window's rastport.