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From: STU00@vx.acss.umn.edu (Stuart Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 620x400 interlace vs (?) 620x400 noninterlace
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Date: 1 May 89 18:41:56 GMT
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Heres a question to the net that I think might clear things up some:

I was fiddling around opening screens and stuff the other day, and decided
to try changing the definition of the screen size to *MUCH* bigger than
the physical screen. I found that I could then draw shapes that would go
off the screen in that direction. (And not whomp on some poor unsuspectiong
memory list ;) It was even drawing points on the physical screen PAST
the normal 620.

So heres the question.  Suppose you had a RGB monitor that actaully was,
say 1048*400.  Could you open a screen 1048*400 and NOT be in interlace
mode?  If you could, I think this would lead to the following change
in 1.4:


	A change to prefenreces that defines the physical size of your 
		screen for non-interlace and interlace mode

	An easy way (defaults in OpenScreen?) to get to these values when
		you open a screen.


Then again, I could be totaly dead in the water!  Could someone fill me
in on this stuff.
					
					Thanks,.
					Stuart STanley
					STU00@UMNACVX