[comp.sys.mac.programmer] Quickdraw Memory requirements

duggie@jessica.stanford.edu (Doug Felt) (03/15/89)

I have trouble in low memory situations with basic (Color) Quickdraw
operations, like blitting or drawing pictures.  What are the
conventional methods for determining whether you have enough
memory/stack space for blitting color pixmaps with/without expansion,
filling regions, drawing pictures, etc?  To my knowledge one cannot
count on Quickdraw to check memory and fall back to blitting smaller
rectangles, and so on, and I am not aware of any technote which tells
you how to determine the minimum memory requirements for a quickdraw
operation.  Any pointers or source code examples will be greatly
appreciated. Thanks.

Doug Felt
Courseware Authoring Tools Project
duggie@jessica.stanford.edu