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From: jriegel@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Jeff Riegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: startup screen
Message-ID: <10201@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 12 Apr 89 03:40:29 GMT
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Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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    I have been experimenting with writing a "startup screen" type program such
as exists on the Amiga and Mac, to replace the desktop's background.  But I
have noticed that the desktop's windows tend to eliminate any background, and
the desktop seems to simply redraw the green (or dithered on monochrome) field.
Does anyone know any way around this?  I had thought that the desktop would
simply have the green background set up in a buffer.  This would speed up 
redraws.  But apparently the desktop itself must redraw the screen and any
windows that are underneath another window.
   Does anyone know of any existing utility that installs a background screen,
or any way to get around the above difficulty?

-Jeff Riegel
jriegel@polyslo.calpoly.edu