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From: andrew@teslab.lab.OZ (Andrew Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: SuperBitMap Layers, etc.
Summary: Flipping screens is not multi-tasking friendly
Keywords: SuperBitMap, Layers, Graphics
Message-ID: <1214@teslab.lab.OZ>
Date: 12 Mar 91 23:19:24 GMT
References: <27D2B7A7.3CE7@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991Mar6.193942.1842@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: andrew@teslab.lab.oz.au (Andrew Phillips)
Organization: Technology Evaluation Section, L.A.B., Sydney
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In article <1991Mar6.193942.1842@watdragon.waterloo.edu> ccplumb@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Colin Plumb) writes:
>Since you say later this is a SMART_REFRESH window, why not just go to 4
>separate screens?  The 4 windows take up as much memory and are, as you've
>observed, less efficient to work with.

This would not be very friendly to the user as if you are flipping
screens he would not be able to manually get back other screens such
as the WorkBench one.

There are versions of ShowAnim that I believe must also do this.  It
is very annoying as you can't leave it running and do something else.

Andrew.
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Andrew Phillips (andrew@teslab.lab.oz.au) Phone +61 (Aust) 2 (Sydney) 289 8712