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From: lippin@skippy.berkeley.edu (The Apathist)
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Subject: Re: flicker-free drawing
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Date: 27 Jul 88 03:02:21 GMT
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Recently gandreas@ub.d.umn.edu.UUCP (Glenn Andreas) wrote:
>  When you (or at least when I) use
>srcCopy for text, it will often erase more than just to the end of the last
>letter.  It seems that it erases up to the next byte/word boundary (?), and
>so if you have your end of the text near say a line you've drawn, it may
>erase a path through the line as well. 

You could be right -- in every case that I can remember trying, I've
been using a ClipRect around the area I'm drawing anyway.  This takes
care of the problem pretty well.

					--Tom Lippincott
					..ucbvax!math!lippin

"The train is the same; only the time is different.  Ecce homo, ergo elk."