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From: duggie@jessica.stanford.edu (Doug Felt)
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Subject: Quickdraw Memory requirements
Keywords: quickdraw, memory
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Date: 14 Mar 89 21:42:41 GMT
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I have trouble in low memory situations with basic (Color) Quickdraw
operations, like blitting or drawing pictures.  What are the
conventional methods for determining whether you have enough
memory/stack space for blitting color pixmaps with/without expansion,
filling regions, drawing pictures, etc?  To my knowledge one cannot
count on Quickdraw to check memory and fall back to blitting smaller
rectangles, and so on, and I am not aware of any technote which tells
you how to determine the minimum memory requirements for a quickdraw
operation.  Any pointers or source code examples will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks.

Doug Felt
Courseware Authoring Tools Project
duggie@jessica.stanford.edu