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From: kdd@well.UUCP (Keith David Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problems with the Director
Message-ID: <5630@well.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 88 23:22:11 GMT
References: <441@sas.UUCP>
Reply-To: kdd@well.UUCP (Keith David Doyle)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <441@sas.UUCP> walker@sas.UUCP (Doug Walker) writes:
>I am having a couple of problems with the Director.  I am trying to load
>some images into fast ram, then copy them into chip ram for display.
>I find that this doesn't work:
>
>LOADFAST 1,"my.pic"
>COPY 1,2
>DISPLAY 2
>
>Nothing ever shows up on the screen!  What am I doing wrong?

Try adding:

LOADFAST 1,"my.pic"
NEW 2,1			<<<<<<<<
COPY 1,2
DISPLAY 2



You can't copy to a buffer that doesn't exist, you can use
NEW to create one to copy into, that is the same size as the
"fast" buffer you loaded into.

I'm a little surprised it didn't give you an error message of
"nonexistant buffer" on the COPY command.

Keith Doyle
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