From: "Helix" <Talis AT Enix DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Sprite movement?
Date: 17 Feb 1998 03:10:59 GMT
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James W Sager Iii <sager+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote in article
<UouA44e00iWV0_wMk0 AT andrew DOT cmu DOT edu>...
> If you want to refresh the background where the sprite once was, a good
> method for doing it is to pick up the background where the sprite is
> going to be in a bitmap the size of the sprite. When you go to move the
> sprite, put the bitmap you picked up earlier over the sprite, and then
> pick it up where the sprites gonna be before you draw the sprite, repeat
> as needed :)
> 
> 

Do you have any examples of some code in this respect? Is their a function
that copies from the screen into memory the terrain? can I edit this and
redraw it?