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From: lippin@jell-o.berkeley.edu (The Apathist)
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Subject: Re: LightSpeed C query
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Date: 14 May 88 23:08:27 GMT
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Recently rs4u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Richard Siegel) said:
>If you need ScreenBits.bounds, the easy way to do it from a DA is to use
>OpenPort to open a new Grafport; that GrafPort's portRect is equal to
>screenBits.
>
>As far as the patterns are concerned, you can use GetIndPattern() to get these
>patterns from the standard system pattern list.

	The one I found was thge most trouble was the arrow cursor --
I don't know of any way to get at it without the quickdraw globals.
It doesn't even have a resource ID.  But using InitCursor instead of
SetCursor takes care of that.

					--Tom Lippincott
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