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From: torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan J Torrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: 1280x1280 cards and windows
Message-ID: <1991Jan21.074853.24400@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 21 Jan 91 07:48:53 GMT
References: <8537.9101161556@marr.ecs.soton.ac.uk> <1170002@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> <48290@apple.Apple.COM>
Sender: torrie@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Evan James Torrie)
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun) writes:


>In article <1170002@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> bayes@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
>writes:
>>> HyperCard buffers bitmaps in fully expanded form -- that's what makes going
>>
>>But I have an SE, bit-per-pixel, yes?, and I still can't seem to do a
>>decent sized card in the standard 1000k partition.  I tried about an
>>800x1000 window (should be 1000*800/8=100kb give or take), and had to
>>kick the partition to 1800KB to get paint tools to work.

>There are several buffers.

>Kevin Calhoun
>HyperCard Team
>Apple Computer, Inc.

  Would it be possible in the future (V3.0?), to only allocate as many
buffers as will fit in memory, and if this is less than the
recommended minimum, put up a dialog box with 

  "Hypercard would like more memory.  It will run in the current 
   configuration, but be prepared for slower card switching..."

  For me, having a slower Hypercard AND a word processor open, is
better than having JUST Hypercard.

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