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From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Intuition's "dont mess with these" fields...
Message-ID: <2272@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Fri, 13-Nov-87 15:43:01 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 13 15:43:01 1987
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Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
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Keywords: Intuition verboten nopokenzefields

Sorry, Chuck, I have to disagree with you strongly regarding what "morerows"
"tells" a program. It does NOT tell the program the size of the largest screen
that the monitor can support. Do not forget that horizontal overscan starts
killing off the sprites one by one. A particular user may well wish to have
those sprites available so that he can run oing! in the background or some
such insanity. Hence examining the appropriate preferences records to check
for the maximum allowed screen size is phoney if your program will be opening
its own screen and does not need the sprites.

Further your friend who returned VideoScape is within his rights I suppose. He
is also sadly misinformed regarding what the authors of VideoScape intended.
I'll ask him (indirectly) whether he'd like his normal TV pictures to have a
black boarder around them of wasted pixels or not? VideoScape is designed to
produce a TV-like picture. Hence it uses maximum overscan. True this cuts
off some of the picture. But it really looks a lot nicer than having any silly
frame around the picture.



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