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From: micro@imada.ou.dk (Klaus Pedersen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: vro_cpyfmt() blues
Keywords: ATARI ST, GEM, VDI, C
Message-ID: <1991May21.171701.2602@imada.ou.dk>
Date: 21 May 91 17:17:01 GMT
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csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod) writes:

>Don't use Logbase() in a VDI context. Just use 0L as a pointer to
>the current screen. VDI will automatically convert this to the
>actual address needed and will even fill in the word width and plane
>count parameters in the MFDB automatically!

I might be wrong here, but it is my experince that you need to set the
fd_stand to device dependent format. Anyway it have helped me in my 
programs. I will go home and try it out now...

Klaus, micro@imada.ou.dk

>Claus Brod, Am Felsenkeller 2,			Things. Take. Time.