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From: rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: PICT into resource
Message-ID: <319@genco.bungi.com>
Date: 6 Feb 91 00:38:12 GMT
References: <Ebc7OgK00WBMM2QUZJ@andrew.cmu.edu> <1991Jan26.140427.2309@cs.umu.se>
Reply-To: rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel)
Organization: Gentry & Assoc. Excelsior Springs, MO
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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?

After you paste the picture into your DLOG, select the picture when a DITL 
item and select 'Use resource rectangle' in ResEdit.  This will use the
proper size rectangle for the PICT and draw quickly.  I dunno if this is
your problem but it sure sounds like this is it.

The World,
Moof Moof