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From: cs178abu@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU (John Schultz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Scrolling bitmaps (help needed)
Message-ID: <804@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 29 Feb 88 22:46:37 GMT
References: <595NU105451@NDSUVM1> <795@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU> <699@nuchat.UUCP>
Reply-To: cs178abu@sdcc8.ucsd.edu.UUCP (John Schultz)
Organization: University of California, San Diego
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Keywords: Bitmap scroll graphics

In article <699@nuchat.UUCP> peter@nuchat.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Is this a solution to the double-buffering page-flipping dillemma?
>
>Is ScrollVPort fast enough for the job? Does it work right under Intuition?

>-- a clone of Peter (have you hugged your wolf today) da Silva  `-_-'

  Answers:

    1.  Depends.
    2.  Yes.
    3.  Of course.

  Trivia:

    ScrollVPort() just re-interprets your RasInfo.
    RethinkDisplay()? Oh jeez, slow yes.  Drawing into screens? Oh
    jeez, slow yes.  LoadView()? Oh, fast yes.  Not intuition
    compatible?  There is at least one way...


   John