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From: raz%kilowatt@Sun.COM (Steve -Raz- Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Dmouse-LineArt problem...
Summary: Working on it... Problems with Draw() or DrawEllipse()?
Keywords: don't use the recently posted handler!
Message-ID: <105905@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 19 May 89 19:41:42 GMT
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In article <564@amanpt1.amanpt1.Newport.RI.US> mrr@amanpt1.amanpt1.Newport.RI.US (Mark Rinfret) writes:
>In article <33788@kilowatt.uucp>, raz@kilowatt.uucp (Raz- Berry) writes:

>> [ I describe a problem with Mark's dmouse-handler ]

>Yeah - I was aware that that could be a problem and was going to fix it if
>I got any response indicating an interest.  I thought I included enough
>_disclaimer_ and cautionary verbage to indicate that it wasn't anything more
>than a crude hack. 

Yep, you did. I just wanted to make sure that you and others were aware that
there was a problem... I know I always hate it when I find something really
neet somewhere, but my system crashes because of it. Besides, Matt has
just modified dmouse to do exactly this kind of thing via IPC. 

>I'm happy to see that my posting triggered what I consider
>to be a positive response.  I'll be looking forward to your "polished"
>alternative (absolutely no sarcasm intended here). It's nice to walk by the
>computer room and see the monitor doing "something" rather than blankly
>staring back at me ("Oh-no!  System crashed! :-).  Thanks for your program.
>I had fun playing with it.

>Mark
>{ Mark R. Rinfret            mrr@amanpt1.Newport.RI.US                       }

Thanks. I had fun writing it. My wife on the other hand doesn't like it
much... (she thinks it's too distracting).

I actually have a working version ready, but I suspect there are still some
deamons lurking. I changed LineArt to draw directly into the screen's rast-
port so it's even FASTER now! But now I am seeing some random system crashes
somtimes as long as two days after running the blanker. I really hate
those kind of bugs... 

Does anybody know of any bugs with Draw() or DrawEllipse()?
I know about passing 0's as radis values to DrawEllipse, anything else?

Steve -Raz- Berry      Disclaimer: I didn't do nutin!
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