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From: dale@amiga.UUCP
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Subject: graphics routines and intuition
Message-ID: <745@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 13:11:01 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 25 13:11:01 1986
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Micheal Gersten asks:
>How do you use the areamove/areafill/etc routines under intuition?
>Since they are defined at the ROM level (under intuition), and do
>not put themselves in screens but in viewports, how can you use
>then with intuition windows?
>This is both for the AreaX routines and the corresponding routines
>without the Area prefix. (The polygon routines).

These routines do not use the ViewPort but use the RastPort.
There is a unique RastPort per window. The programmer uses
this RastPort to do all his rendering through.

I would have sent this directly but I thought it would be of
general useful info, plus our mailer told us we had to be kidding
when I tried a reply to pyramid!decwrl!cc1@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
Dale Luck
Amiga