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From: delann@cs.umu.se (Anders Nyman)
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Subject: Re: PICT into resource
Message-ID: <1991Jan26.140427.2309@cs.umu.se>
Date: 26 Jan 91 14:04:27 GMT
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In article <Ebc7OgK00WBMM2QUZJ@andrew.cmu.edu> gb2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (George J. Baxter) writes:
>Dear World,
>    I'm trying to load a somewhat complicated (though I believe less
>than 32K) PICT image into a PICT resource to use in a modeless dialog. 
>How the begeebers to I pull it off?  I have managed to do the cut and
>paste routine with PixelPaint Pro. and ResEdit 2.0d3, but it makes it a
>bitmap, and is _VERY_ slow when I call 'DrawPicture'.  So I tried to do
>a cut from MacDraw and paste into ResEdit, but it wouldn't go, same
>result with SuperPaint.  Any suggestions?
>                    

Try to first paste the picture to the Scrapbook. After that you go to your
ResEditor and open the scrapbook file in the systemfolder. Look in the PICT
resource after your picture, cut it and paste into your own resourcefile.

Hope it works for you!
/Anders N.