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From: rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Hooks into the OS vs doing it all yourself
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.161518.11863@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 91 16:15:18 GMT
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In article <1410@pdxgate.UUCP> bartonr@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (bartonr) writes:
>From: rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
>>   Every Amiga window contains a Border structure.
>
>  No it doesn't, at least not as of version 34.3 of Intuition.  A Gadget
>structure may contain a pointer to a Border structure, however.
>
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 Opps! Freudian Slip.. I got it mixed up with the requester structure.
You can still change the look of windows with DrawBorder(). Check out
Software Distillery's HackLite. They used Borders to make windows look like
scrolls I believe.

 And if you really want fancy windows there's struct Image/DrawImage() or
BltBitMapRastPort().