| From: | paul |
| Date: | 3 May 2001 at 15:36:33 |
| Subject: | Re: Screenswapping and burning CD's |
--- In amigactive@y..., Joris Kempen <Trekker@s...> wrote:
> Hello Neil
>
> On 03-May-01, you wrote:
>
> > It's the screen image that takes the memory. It makes no
> > difference whether you have 20 windows with different backdrops
> > or a single shell.
> So a WB with a 400k JPG backdrop doesn't take more video memory
> than a WB without a backdrop?
It doesn't take any more video memory to display the backdrop.
However a copy of the backdrop needs to be held somewhere to re-draw
the screen. It is possible that this will be held in the video
memory (but probably not :).
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