Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!dlyons
From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: custom icon questions again
Message-ID: <32384@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 13 Jun 89 03:51:46 GMT
References: <9365@boulder.Colorado.EDU>
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <9365@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU (HARTKOPF JEFFREY M) writes:
>To Dave Lyons:  For some reason I couldn't get this letter to you through
>E-mail like I was able to with my first one, so I'll post it...

Actually, I think your letter did get through...it's probably lying on my
floor.  (All together now...let's say "Dave is way behind and really should
never print out a message instead of replying to it immediately.")

>[...] I figured out how to draw an icon in a dialog box using NewDItem, where
>the format for the icon was
>
>MyIcon:
>record
>	BoundsRect:	Rect;
>	Data:		Array[1..11, 1..7] of byte;
>end;

That's fine.  Even better than Array[0..xxx] of byte, since it makes the
structure more obvious.  It doesn't matter how many bytes you put on a
line, as long as your declaration matches your StuffHex statements.

>or whatever (this for the Dialog box version).  Now in your letter to me you
>said I should do it using an array of char like array[0..200] of char, and
>then using StuffHex like
>
>StuffHex(@MyIcon[0], '1029492412a2');
>StuffHex(@MyIcon[6], '........
>
>and so on.  Is this the method for IconItem's or DrawIcon?

You can StuffHex for any purpose you want.  It'll work for either iconItems
and for DrawIcon icons, but you need to stuff *different* data for DrawIcon
than you need to stuff for iconItems.

>What exactly is the format for a DrawIcon icon?

See Toolbox Ref Vol 2, page 17-3.  The format is different from DrawIcon.

>--Jeff Hartkopf,  hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU

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