UC.BRI%DEEP-THOUGHT@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Brian Totty) (09/07/86)
As for my earlier message as why my TextBlt did not work, I may have a clue. It turns out that the problem (I think) was in the size of the raster form width. I was using a form with a width of 4096 bytes, so maybe a signed word value may have had problems. I tried using a form with a much smaller width (the system font), and it worked fine. So, then I tried a form width of 2048. Nope, still didn't work. Hmmm... So, right now, I take the character I want, blit it from the big form into a temporary form, and then TextBlt it. This works! It is interesting to note that normal GEM raster ops work fine with raster form widths of 4096 bytes. I wish I had some documentation that explained this for sure... Also, I would like to thank Jwahar Bammi for his replies to my TextBlt questions. All of my letters got bounced back from case, so I couldn't thank him personally. So, if anyone has any definitive ideas about this TextBlt/form width thing, I would love to hear about it. --- Bri ...!mit-eddie!bri uc.bri@deep-thought.mit.edu -------