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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: A neat INIT needed
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Date: 6 Feb 90 17:40:42 GMT
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/* Written  9:33 pm  Feb  4, 1990 by dce@smsc.sony.com in p.cs.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac.programmer */
In article <10044@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>>And of course, it could also reduce your 19" color screen to a 9" B/W
>>so you could see how dialogs and stuff will fit.
>
>Good idea -- sort of a "Stepping In".  

Actually, if I ever had some time, I was going to try and write one of
these.  It would make a 5-star MacTutor article.

The main thing to do is to simulate 2 different screens on the same
color screen.  The "Monitors" control panel device would allow you to
drag the second screen around, relative to the first screen, and
change the color depth on different screens (probably impossible,
unless you use some offscreen bitmap trickiness).  You might have to
allocate 128 color table entries per subscreen.

This would be a great boon to people developing software for multiple
monitors, who can't afford (or don't want to bother) buying a second monitor.