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From: dmac@athena.mit.edu (David S. McCormick)
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Subject: Re: PICT into resource
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.212601.23127@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 31 Jan 91 21:26:01 GMT
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In article <Ebc7OgK00WBMM2QUZJ@andrew.cmu.edu> gb2a+@andrew.cmu.edu 
(George J. Baxter) writes:
>     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?

I created a PICT in Canvas, copied the pict to the scrap, then pasted it 
back in via Paste Pict or Paste Special, then used the Object... dialog to 
change the thing to a bitmap. This solved several problems: (1) the PICT 
was then very small in size, (2) there was no dependence of the image on 
the systems for fonts being present. The image was then pasted into a PICT 
resource via ResEdit, and the thing worked like a charm. You may be able 
to toggle PICT's from pure Pictures (i.e. sequence of drawing commands) 
into a PICT bitmap in other programs. Try it. I hope this is helpful.


David McCormick
MIT-EAPS Geology
dmac@athena.mit.edu