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From: rmiller@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Robert Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: questions, questions, questions....
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Date: 25 Jul 90 19:23:29 GMT
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I'm working on my first Macintosh application, and I'm unclear about
several things.  There will be two windows, one of them with a TextEdit
record and another one with graphics.

1.  I would like to store the graphics in a PicHandle for easy updating.
What is the effect of calling DrawPicture when there is a picture definition
open?  Will it transfer the code of one picture to another picture?  Or
will the call of DrawPicture be encoded into the picture?  

2.  I would like to keep the viewRect in the TextEdit record large 
enough so that no lines wrap to the next line.  That is, each line ends
with an end-of-line character.  Would calculating the length of the longest
line be a problem?

3.  Is there a straightforward way of printing a Picture or a TextEdit 
record?

I apologize if these questions are too simple, but sometimes it is
very hard to know where to look, even if supposedly everything is spelled
out in Inside Macintosh.

Thanks,

Robert
rmiller@sbcs.sunysb.edu