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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Bypassing Mac OS text drawing?
Message-ID: <5826@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 4 Nov 88 21:58:43 GMT
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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Does anyone have code to speed up text drawing by bypassing QuickDraw and
the Font Manager, copying bits directly from the font resource to a window's
bitmap?  I'm looking to speed up a terminal emulator and this seems like
the best way.  I know a few other terminal emulators have done this, but
it looks like a major pain in the retrace to do it from scratch.

It would also help to find a quicker way to allocate storage, but on that
point I seem to be stuck with the OS for compatibility reasons.
-- 
Tim Maroney, Consultant, Eclectic Software, sun!hoptoad!tim
"Next prefers its X and T capitalized.  We'd prefer our name in lights in
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