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From: anders@verity.com (Anders Wallgren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: GetNamedResource and cicn
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Date: 8 Mar 91 01:45:32 GMT
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From IM-V, page 76:

"The GetCIcon function allocates a CIcon data structure and
initializes it using the information in the resource type 'cicn' with
the specified ID.

...

"Since GetCIcon creates a new CIcon data structure each time it is
called, your application shouldn't call GetCIcon before each call to
PlotCIcon..."

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Interpreted, this means: you _must_ load the icon by calling GetCIcon
once and _only_ once, before calling PlotCIcon.  Since I really wanted
to load my icon by name, I think worked around this limitations by
using the name to find the 'cicn' resource and then took the resource
id of that and created the CIcon with GetCIcon.

anders