[net.micro.amiga] graphics routines and intuition

dale@amiga.UUCP (02/25/86)

Micheal Gersten asks:
>How do you use the areamove/areafill/etc routines under intuition?
>Since they are defined at the ROM level (under intuition), and do
>not put themselves in screens but in viewports, how can you use
>then with intuition windows?
>This is both for the AreaX routines and the corresponding routines
>without the Area prefix. (The polygon routines).

These routines do not use the ViewPort but use the RastPort.
There is a unique RastPort per window. The programmer uses
this RastPort to do all his rendering through.

I would have sent this directly but I thought it would be of
general useful info, plus our mailer told us we had to be kidding
when I tried a reply to pyramid!decwrl!cc1@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
Dale Luck
Amiga