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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Finding the size of the screen under Multifinder/Color QD
Message-ID: <9591@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 10 Jan 90 09:23:48 GMT
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In article <4594@helios.ee.lbl.gov> beard@ux1.lbl.gov (Patrick C Beard) writes:
>I've used the OpenPort strategy before and it does work.  In fact, if you
>just open a classic GrafPort, you don't need to go through the tests you
>show above.

True enough, but the comments about stack space, heap space, and
processing overhead still apply.  It's far more efficient to just look
at screenBits.bounds than it is to open and close a port on the stack.
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Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

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