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- From: ibhan@husc10.harvard.edu (Ishir Bhan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Sprites
- Message-ID: <ibhan.725345345@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 04:49:05 GMT
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- positron@engin.umich.edu (Jonathan Scott Haas) writes:
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- >Does the Mac have sprites? I'd like to be able to draw something
- >in a window, then move it around without disturbing the background
- >beneath it. If that works, I'd maybe even like to do fancy stuff
- >like collision detection. How can I do this? (If the answer is "Read
- >Inside Mac", please tell me which volume I'll want.)
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- I don't think Macs really have sprites. I'm not sure how exactly you'd do
- this sort of thing. From what I've heard about QuickDraw GX, it looks
- like it may provide this sort of functionality, but it's not really here yet.
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