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Display SHR from Appesoft?



I know this can be done, I just don't know how to do it, and I was hoping
someone could help... 8-)

I have this idea for a fairly ambitious data manipulation project. 
Because of my own limitations and patience level for getting results, for
the moment at least I am planning to do the bulk of the program in
Applesoft BASIC, perhaps using some Assembler support routines to speed up
some of the interface details (such as a string builder to read in data
and a cursor routine for the user interface).  Anyway, I got this neat
idea:  If the file contains a link to a graphic, I'd like to be able to
display it.  I want to support 320 and 640 graphics (I don't see any real
need to display either 280 or 3200 mode graphics...).  Obviously I'm on a
IIgs, and there is no shortage of either memory or disk space.  I'm also
not averse to writing a driver routine in Assembly (Merlin), but I have to
be able to call the routine from Applesoft 'cause I'm too lazy to write
the whole program in Assembly and I'm not comfortable working with the
toolbox yet.

Anybody got any suggestions to get me started?

--Dave Althoff, ][.
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