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From: cegrw@cc.nu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: PICTures to scrap and to files
Message-ID: <12207.26236fab@cc.nu.oz>
Date: 11 Apr 90 07:55:55 GMT
References: <7539@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: University of Newcastle
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> In article <12155.2618b418@cc.nu.oz> cegrw@cc.nu.oz writes:
>> 2. When you get a cut or copy you run though this linked list from start 
> to
>>    finish with StdPutPic. This is where the PICTs have to be less than 
> 32K
>>    because you have to specify how long the PICT is that you are going to
>>    append and the size is an integer.
> 
> If you want to combine several pictures into one you should just open a 
> new picture (for recording) and call DrawPicture with each of the smaller 
> pictures.  That way you don't have to worry about any 32K limit.
> 

Tried that on my SE and all I ever managed to do was hang my machine. Sure IM
reads as if you can do that but I was never able to get it to work ... and I
spent quite some time trying to get it to work!!

Garry Willgoose
Uni of Newcastle
AUSTRALIA