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Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ?

From Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ?
Date 2011-04-07 13:14 +0200
Organization MW Software
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          Martin Hansen <mhh@shrewsbury.org.uk> wrote:

> On Apr 6, 1:50 pm, Martin Wuerthner <spamt...@mw-software.com> wrote:

>> c) It is still completely unclear what the above code is meant to
>> achieve in the first place. You tell the Wimp you want to update a
>> window, you go through the redraw loop, but you do not draw anything
>> to the window, so why go to all the trouble? Inside your "redraw"
>> loop, all you do is switch output to a sprite and plot some other
>> sprite into it.

> I think you are assuming that all of the sprite is visible

No, that would be a very unreasonable assumption in a Wimp program.

> but in my case it may be partially covered by another window, which is
> why it's in a redraw loop.

That would be correct if you plotted anything to the screen in your 
redraw loop, but you don't. You just plot into a sprite, so doing that 
inside the loop only makes everything slower and more complicated.

-- 
Martin
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Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Martin Hansen <mhh@shrewsbury.org.uk> - 2011-04-05 12:28 -0700
  Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-04-05 21:59 +0200
    Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Martin Hansen <mhh@shrewsbury.org.uk> - 2011-04-05 17:30 -0700
      Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-04-06 05:23 +0200
        Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Martin Hansen <mhh@shrewsbury.org.uk> - 2011-04-06 02:23 -0700
          Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2011-04-06 10:53 +0100
            Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Martin Hansen <mhh@shrewsbury.org.uk> - 2011-04-06 03:59 -0700
              Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-04-06 14:50 +0200
                Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Martin Hansen <mhh@shrewsbury.org.uk> - 2011-04-06 09:31 -0700
                Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-04-06 18:19 +0100
                Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Martin Wuerthner <spamtrap@mw-software.com> - 2011-04-07 13:14 +0200
                Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Martin Hansen <mhh@shrewsbury.org.uk> - 2011-04-07 09:49 -0700
          Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Rick Murray <heyrickmail-usenet@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-04-06 14:23 +0200
          Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2011-04-06 18:20 +0100
  Re: Weird scaling bug - any ideas ? Gerph <gerph@gerph.org> - 2011-04-09 05:06 -0700

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