Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!njin!princeton!udel!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!mp1u+ From: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Custom Bit Maps & Intuition Message-ID: Date: 8 Jun 88 19:33:46 GMT References: <10628@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Carnegie Mellon Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: <10628@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> > *Excerpts from ext.nn.comp.sys.amiga.tech: 7-Jun-88 Custom Bit Maps &* > *Intuition Pete Goodeve@violet.berk (1031)* > I can, of course, open a window over the whole screen to put my bitmap in, > but then the screen is going to get its own bitmap too at the moment it's > created, which is a lot of wasted space if it's high-res/four-plane, say. I thought that backdrop windows used the screen's bitmap for their own bitmap. Thus you could open up a backdrop window over the whole screen and not waste any space. I believe this is the method the Intuition manual advises. --M Michael Portuesi / Information Technology Center / Carnegie Mellon University ARPA/UUCP: mp1u+@andrew.cmu.edu BITNET: rainwalker@drycas "if you ain't ill it'll fix your car"