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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Intuition's "dont mess with these" fields...
Message-ID: <1856@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Nov-87 13:24:03 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1856
Posted: Mon Nov  9 13:24:03 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Nov-87 02:34:38 EST
References: <1961@amiga.amiga.UUCP> <1825@cadovax.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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Keywords: Intuition verboten nopokenzefields

In article <33210@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>One of the problems with 'overscan' is that not all monitors can handle
>it. That means that if you put the screen into what you think is a 
>reasonable overscan mode, the image may very well be off the edges of
>the screen of some users. So how can you know ahead of time that what
>the users screen can handle ? You CANT! However, when the *user* resizes
>his screen intuition picks this up and you don't have to do anything 
>different in your program, just open a screen to the smaller of 
>your maximum desired screen/window size -or- the maximum intuition
>screen/window size. 

Except when I'm playing back IFF ShowANIM files, the overscan mode is 
explicitly defined.  I open up a screen of whatever size is specified
in the IFF file.  If the users monitor can't handle it, he'd better get
a new monitor or throw away his copy of Videoscape 3D.  I do not hard-code
screen sizes anywhere in my application, they are defined by the IFF picture
and ANIM files specified by the user.

>For pre-1.2+ systems you supply morerows ( which last time I checked was
>freely redistributable) and explain to the user how to set up the maximum
>screen size that they are comfortable with on their monitor. 

Assuming he only wants to work in one resolution, which is not a very
good assumption.

>screen positioning box in preferences ? 
>

Even this wouldn't help with my application.  You can mix resolutions as
you please, including overscan with non-overscan images.  100% dynamic.
Should I force you to convert your overscan workbench to non-overscan
while you run certain animations, but not when you run others?  Doesn't
sound very user-friendly to me.

Keith Doyle
#  {ucbvax,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd  Contel Business Systems 213-323-8170