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From: jpexg@mit-hermes.ARPA (John Purbrick)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari16
Subject: Can I draw off-screen
Message-ID: <2700@mit-hermes.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 6-Sep-86 22:45:31 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep  6 22:45:31 1986
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Organization: The MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, MA
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I'm doing some graphics-intensive stuff on my ST, using Megamax C. Some of it
involves animation, and it really looks bad to draw elements of the output
piece by piece. The time taken is significant, and it would be a great
improvement to draw the whole thing off-screen, in some phantom area, and
then reset the screen position. Then the new drawing would just "blink" into
place. But as far as I understand it, the drawing routines (v_pline, 
v_fillarea, etc) work only on the current screen. If anyone knows a way around
this problem I'd appreciate hearing it.
						-jp