Re: [MiNT] force screen redraw in GEM/XAAES

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 00:18:36 , Peter Persson <pep.fishmoose@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 3 aug 2011 kl. 23.33 skrev Peter Slegg:
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> > On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 22:01:36 , Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>
> wrote:
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> >> On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 21:54 +0200, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
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> >>> I don't know any. But opening a full-screen-sized window and closing
> it
> >>> should do the same.

Imagecopy can go full screen with *

Regards,

Peter


> form_dial() is faster, since nothing is drawn. It can't however redraw
> the menubar. There are two ways to fix that:
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> 1. Copy the menu-bar portion of the screen just after you lock the
> screen & go fullscreen. Restore that area prior to unlocking the screen
> again.
> 2. Install your own menu bar & remove it again before program exit.
>
> On the ST/STE/TT/Falcon, this stuff isn't a big deal since they have a
> low level API which caters for this stuff without involving the AES. You
> still have to worry about application focus etc, but it's not as messy
> as it is on the Hades/Milan/Aranym/whatever.
>
> -- PeP