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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Custom Bit Maps & Intuition
Message-ID: <2109@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 88 14:39:19 GMT
References: <10628@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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In article ... pete@violet.berkeley.edu (Pete Goodeve) writes:
> Okay, I have a simple goal (at least I thought it was...):  I want to put
> up an Intuition screen containing a pre-generated custom bitmap,
                                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is, of course, the key phrase that everyone missed. You have a big old
bitmap that you want to put into a new screen that you haven't opened yet.
You can, of course, open the screen and then copy the bitmap in, or play with
a superbitmap window, or whatatever... but there is no way you can open a
screen with an existing bitmap without, as you put it,

> leaving a black space in [the title bar's] place over the top of my picture.

I ran into this problem myself, when I wanted to read a bitmap from a FORM
ILBM and wrap a screen around it. Eventually I just gave up and where I had
been allocating the bitmap I allocated a SCREENBEHIND screen and rendered
into its bitmap. Then I shoved it to the front to display it.

Yes, this is a bug. No, there isn't a workaround that lets you do things in
the order you want. There you go.
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