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From: b_murphy@vaxa.cc.uwa.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: PICTs
Message-ID: <1990Sep4.122154.2175@vaxa.cc.uwa.oz.au>
Date: 4 Sep 90 04:21:54 GMT
References: <1262@meaddata.mead.UUCP>
Organization: University of Western Australia
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In article <1262@meaddata.mead.UUCP>, rubin@mead.UUCP (Daniel Rubin) writes:
> So you are in ResEdit and you have got this neat little cube of graphics
> about 1 inch by 1 inch pasted in the scrapbook.
> 
> How do you get it pasted to the current window in your program ? 
> 
> The problem that I am having is pulling the text in a PICT and knowing
> how big to make a rect to draw it in, I think ????
> 
> When I copy that image from the scrapbook to the PICT resource does it 
> grab the whole screen even though there is only a little tiny piece of
> graphics in there..

I assume you mean that the PICT rect that you want to display in a DITL is
the wrong size. ResEdit has a menu item 'Use rsrc rect' (or something of the
sort :-) If you select your DITL and then the menu, presto... the PICT will
appear unscaled, the original size.

-o