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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Are you playing with (enough) power?
Message-ID: <1110@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 07:57:59 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 07:57:59 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 02:07:43 EST
References: <4124@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <4230009@hpfclq.HP.COM>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: Console windows.

In article <4230009@hpfclq.HP.COM>, cunniff@hpfclq.HP.COM (Ross Cunniff) writes:
> [discussion of SMART_REFRESH/SUPERBITMAP vs SIMPLE_REFRESH] Note that console
> (text) windows are typically of the second type.  A paint program, or
> something like it, typically uses windows of the first type.

Console windows (produced by CON:) are all Smart Refresh. I wish they were
Simple Refresh. There would be a lot less slicing and dicing going on.

> I would tell you the AmigaSpeak for each type of window, but I always get
> them confused without looking them up (SIMPLE_REFRESH? SMART_REFRESH?  I
> can come up with a rationale for which is which, BOTH WAYS :-> ).

Easy to get confused. They're named in terms of how much work Intuition
has to do to handle them, not how much work the program needs.
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