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From: blythe@sgi.com (David R. Blythe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: What's with the polymode call.....
Keywords: does it work?
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.215635.4459@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 7 Jun 91 21:56:35 GMT
References: <1991Jun7.055225.3382@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
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In article <1991Jun7.055225.3382@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> echidna@ecr.mu.oz.au (Eric H. Echidna) writes:
>
>	We recently had some code that made use of the 'polymode' call
>to change the way various polygons were being filled. It didn't have
>ant effect at all. This is on a PI 4D25. Here is an example that doesn't
>work....what's up?

polymode() is not implemented on the 4D G, GT, GTX or Personal IRIS.  This
is documented in the NOTES section of the manual page for polymode.  getgdesc()
can be used to determine at runtime if polymode support is available.
	david blythe