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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Clipping
Message-ID: <42305@sun.uucp>
Date: 18 Feb 88 00:32:04 GMT
References: <658@sandino.quintus.UUCP>
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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Keywords: windows clipping rastport

In article <658@sandino.quintus.UUCP> pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
>A question for all you Gurus (sorry if this is an old, stale question):
>what is the blessed way to clip stuff to the inside of a window?  I
>don't want to waste the space of a SMART_REFRESH or GIMME_ZERO_ZERO
>window, I'm using SIMPLE_REFRESH.

Have you tried creating your own rastport structure and then installing a
UserClip region into it. (point at the same bit map the window uses). This
aliased RastPort should work like a GZZ window but be space efficient since
there is only one bitmap hanging around. 


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