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From: Ken.Knight@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ken Knight)
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Subject: Re: Drawing Pictures To Wi
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Date: 28 Jan 91 21:13:19 GMT
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rmiller@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Robert Miller) asks:
>I've been working with Pictures and there is something Inside
>Macintosh does not make clear to me:
>
>1.  A picture saves a series of Quickdraw calls.  Are these calls made
>to the coordinate system defined by the rectangle the picture is drawn
>in?  That is, if I call DrawPicture(myPic, &myRec) and myRec.top and
>myRec.left are negative, will the picture be drawn with the top and the
>left side outside of the window?
 
The co-ordinate system that is used  is the one of the current
grafport. The rectangle you give in a DrawPicture call says where, in
that grafport, you want the picture to be drawn. So, assuming your
average grafport the answer to your question is, "yes."


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