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Drawing Characters into a Narrow GrafPort

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[Mar 01 1988]




Introduction

When you draw a character into a GrafPort, your program will die with an address error if the width of the GrafPort is smaller than the width of the character. If you check before drawing the character to see if the GrafPort is wide enough, you can avoid this unfortunate tragedy.

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