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From: mike@ames.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DropShadow
Message-ID: <1426@ames.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 12:11:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: ames.1426
Posted: Thu Apr 30 12:11:00 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 10:04:31 EDT
References: <1555@solar.STANFORD.EDU>
Reply-To: mike@ames.UUCP (Mike Smithwick)
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Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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Summary: DS author

[this is for the ravenous line-eating beast of Traal]

In article <1555@solar.STANFORD.EDU> shf@solar.UUCP (Stuart Ferguson) writes:
>By the way, does anyone know how that program works?  Specifically: it
>must add another bitplane to the Workbench screen but how does it do it?
>Does it append the bitplane to the existing ones or does it allocate a
>whole new screen and point the Workbench at it?
>	Stuart		shf@solar.Stanford.EDU
Yes it does add another bitplane to the existing WB screen. Then it goes
and twiddles with the layers library. The copy I have came with documentation
which explained a little about it. 

>* I'd credit _DS_'s author here, but he didn't sign his name to his product.

>Perhaps someone who knows can fill in the blank.
The author is Jim Mackraz, who took -=RJ=-s (tm) place on 1.2 intiution 
developement. 

Jim usually pops up at the BADGE meetings, so since you're at Stanford 
already, drop on in, and thank him in person.

I use 4 windowed systemms, the Mac, the Amy (natch!), a SUN-160 and Iris,, and
with both Dropshadow, and Dropcloth, in hi-res interlace, the Amy is clearly
the best looking of the bunch, screenwise.  
 
				  *** mike ***

Fortran? Just say no!

-- 
				   *** mike (powered by M&Ms) smithwick ***

"ever felt like life was a game, and 
 someone gave you the wrong instruction book?"