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From: bittrolff@evans.enet.dec.com (Steve Bittrolff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: saving screen in a GEM app.
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Date: 25 Apr 91 21:14:11 GMT
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>The trouble with this is, you only get 1 level of nesting (or another 32K
>every time you open another dialog on top of an old one!).
> 
>A far better, and easier method is to just redraw the form AFTER the nested
>form is complete.  Just use objc_draw for this purpose.

I couldn't use the objc_draw because I had some background graphics (directly
into the window) that were being written on top of, with no easy way to 
recreate.


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