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From: CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu (Christopher Tate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Palette Manager question
Message-ID: <91106.222240CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 17 Apr 91 02:22:40 GMT
References: <91106.132819CXT105@psuvm.psu.edu> <2019@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
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The answer I got was quite useful, as far as it goes, but....

In article <2019@optima.cs.arizona.edu>, gerhard@cs.arizona.edu (Gerhard
Mehldau) says:

> [ ... ] the easiest way to do it is to use the new GWorld calls in 32-bit
>QuickDraw -- all you need to do is pass in "gTable" when you create the
>offscreen GWorld, as in
>
>    Rect rect;
>    GWorldPtr pixmap;
>
>    NewGWorld(&pixmap,gDepth,&rect,gTable,NULL,0L);
>
>This way you don't have to worry about saving/restoring CLUTs; 32-bit
>QuickDraw
>automagically takes care of it for you.

Unfortunately, I can't find documentation for the 32-bit Quickdraw calls
*anywhere*.  Is this yet another truly useful facility which is only
documented in Inside Macintosh VI?  The only things I've been able to
scrounge up are some not-very-useful files under /pub/dts/mac/docs or some
such at apple.apple.com, and the tech note called "So many bitmaps, so
little time," which doesn't tell me what I need to know.

Where are the 32-bit Quickdraw calls documented, and how can I get hold of
them?  I'm getting pretty sick of all this "only available on the developer
CD's" stuff....

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