#: 4222 S10/Tandy CoCo
    10-Jun-90  13:49:13
Sb: #pictures
Fm: Darrell Coffey 76106,767
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 help!

 I'm currently designing a new program for a bussiness application, and my main
menu and the other's are getting to where the graphic's they have to draw
on-boot up in each of the windows are knocking up a lot of time.
 So I decided that loading them from disk would be the best method, no such
luck.
 the best way I found to save and load the pictures are in 4 8k buffers.
 (Can you make a 32k buffer so you don't have to split it up?)
 then I tried to use the os9 call SS.MpGPB (Function code $84)
  I opened a path to the window (/w7 a 32k 640 x 200 4 color)
 set the a register to the path
 set the b register to $84
 set the x register to $0101 (High group byte, log buffer byte)
 set the y register to 1 for map buffer
 run syscall ($84,regs)
 and all I get back is a set of negative numbers in the x,y registers.
  Am I missing something important?
  Is theyre a better way to get the window screen location for each window?
 is there a better way to Save/Load a picture to/from a disk?

  any help greatly appreciated!

           Darrell Coffey



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