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From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Correct way to set pixels?
Message-ID: <52431@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 4 May 91 00:59:56 GMT
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In article <52427@apple.Apple.COM> stevec@Apple.COM (Steve Christensen) writes:
>wolf@piquet.cipl.uiowa.edu (Michael J. Wolf) writes:
>>What is the proper and endorsed manner to set and clear pixels in a window?
>>
>>I would like to be able to do somethig like a fatbits editor.
>
>Well, certainly one way of doing it is something like this:
>
>	ForeColor(pixelOn ? BlackColor : WhiteColor);
>	MoveTo(h,v);
>	Line(1,0);
>
>This will draw a 1-pixel-long line.  There's no QuickDraw routine to touch a
>single pixel...
>

  Actually, Line(0,0) will draw a single pixel...

  -- Dean Yu
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