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From: rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Any bitmap editors available?
Message-ID: <4854@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 12 Dec 89 15:53:11 GMT
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   I have written several programs that do graphics by means of bitmaps and
CopyBits.  While drawing the images is easy and fast, creating the bitmaps in
the first place is a pain.  What I usually end up doing is (if the bitmaps are
small) creating "ICON" resources with ResEdit, loading them into memory, and
then setting the baseAddr field of the bitmap record to point to the ICON
resource.  This works fine for 32 X 32 bitmaps, but I would like something more
general.

   Does anyone on the net know of a general purpose bitmap editor?  I
recall seeing a "bmap" resource in some file somewhere; is bmap a standard
resource type for bitmaps of any size?  What I would like is some kind of
editor that gives me complete control over the size of the bitmap and can
adjust the rowbytes and bounds fields accordingly.

   I know that MacPaint and SuperPaint are very powerful bitmap editors.  Is
there some way to coerce their files into a resource I could use to store
bitmaps efficiently in my programs?  If worse comes to worst, I can always
write my own bitmap editor, but I hate writing utilities.

Thanks,
Randall Cook

rcook@eagle.wesleyan.edu
rcook%eagle@wesleyan.bitnet