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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Intuition's "dont mess with these" fields...
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Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 10:54:16 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 22 10:54:16 1987
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Keywords: Intuition verboten nopokenzefields
Summary: What you can do with it...

> But then what do you do with a full-video image after that?  Do we expect
> that a completely static "here it is guys, look but don't touch" is all
> we can do with it?

You can display it. You can display it through a genlock. You can print it.
You can use it as the background for a game. You can do anything else you
want with it. You just can't move the mouse outside the NormalDisplayRows
and NormalDisplayColumns. I don't see why you're making a big deal about this.
Presumably you want to do this for video applications anyway, so you don't
want to have a mouse dorking around in your screen anyway.

> The point is that DPaint II has a full-video mode, and users then want to
> make use of these full-video images in a real full-video mode, not just
> as a scrollable bitmap.  You don't need a full video mode to scroll a
> bitmap.

You don't need the full video to edit a bitmap, just to display it.
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