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From: 840493n@aucs.UUCP (Bill Nickerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: AreaEllipse - HHHHEEELLLLPPPPP!
Message-ID: <1708@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 29 Mar 89 18:16:58 GMT
Reply-To: 840493n@aucs.UUCP (Bill Nickerson)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia (yeah!)
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I can't seem to get AreaEllipse working correctly. I have been reading the
Sybex book (Amiga Programmer's Reference) and it has conflicting information
and I don't know what to believe. I assume I have to initialize a vector
list for area definition with the InitArea function before I do an AreaEllipse.
The book says that AreaInit takes 3 parms: AreaInfo *, buf * (aligned on
a word boundary), and the number of vectors allowed. Now here is the problem:
do _I_ allocate the buf * or does _the routine_ do it for me? The book suggests
both, but wouldn't I have to pass a buf ** in order to have the system do
it for me? Arrrrghhhhhh! Can someone give me a proper definition of the
function, what the parms mean, and a _small_ example of code to draw a filled
ellipse (pointing out any initialization I'd have to do)? I would appreciate
it _A LOT_. This has been driving me crazy for the past couple of days.

...BillyBob.

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