Re: Text in a wimp window

From	Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject	Re: Text in a wimp window
Date	2025-08-14 16:12 +0100
Organization	University of Cambridge, England
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Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Another option is to have an icon which is a sprite and occupies all of your
> window.  Then, using VDU commands, redirect your OS_Plot, Font_Paint, etc
> drawing to the sprite instead of the screen.

I misremembered, it's not VDU commands to redirect output to a sprite but
OS_SpriteOp 60:
https://www.riscosopen.org/wiki/documentation/show/OS_SpriteOp%2060

(I think it was VDU at one time - Graphics Extension Rom on the BBC Micro?)

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  Re: Text in a wimp window druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-08-14 09:35 +0100
    Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-14 09:54 +0100
    Re: Text in a wimp window Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-08-14 10:03 +0100
      Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-14 10:45 +0100
        Re: Text in a wimp window Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2025-08-14 14:37 +0000
          Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-14 17:57 +0100
      Re: Text in a wimp window Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-08-14 16:12 +0100
  Re: Text in a wimp window Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2025-08-14 21:19 +0100
    Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-15 16:39 +0100
      Re: Text in a wimp window Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2025-08-15 20:06 +0100
        Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-16 16:10 +0100
          Re: Text in a wimp window Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2025-08-18 11:50 +0100
            Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-18 12:58 +0100
            Re: Text in a wimp window Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-08-20 18:35 +0100
              Re: Text in a wimp window Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2025-08-21 13:01 +0000
              Re: Text in a wimp window Harriet Bazley <harriet@bazleyfamily.co.uk> - 2025-08-23 00:31 +0100
      Re: Text in a wimp window Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-08-17 18:01 +0200

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