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From: sfleming@cs.strath.ac.uk (Stewart T Fleming IE87)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Finding the size of the screen under Multifinder/Color QD
Message-ID: <1466@baird.cs.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 11 Jan 90 13:04:38 GMT
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In article <9591@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>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.

I thought the correct way was to examine the boundary rectangle of
the global variable GrayRgn.
[Inside Mac V - can't remember the page number]

>Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com

Stewart Fleming
4th Year Information Engineering
University Of Strathclyde
Scotland