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From: Greg@AppleLink.Apple.Com (Greg Marriott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: GetNamedResource and cicn
Message-ID: <12442@goofy.Apple.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 91 12:24:49 GMT
References: <1991Mar06.143904.23891@tkk.tele.fi>
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In article <1991Mar06.143904.23891@tkk.tele.fi>, jopa@tkk.tele.fi (Jorma Paananen TKK-tt) writes:
> following code works for cicns, color or b&w.
> 
>     aCIconHandle = GetCIcon (iconID);
>     PlotCIcon (&aRect, aCIconHandle);
> 
> but why doesn't this work (plots only garbage) when run in Mac with
> color, when run in Mac with b&w screen, the b&w version of the cicn
> plots ok.
> 
>     aCIconHandle = (CIconHandle) GetNamedResource ('cicn', iconNamePstr);
>     PlotCIcon (&aRect, aCIconHandle);

GetCIcon does more than just getting the 'cicn' resource.  It also fills
out the color icon data structures in memory (putting the color table
into a handle, etc...).

Greg Marriott
Blue Meanie
Apple Computer, Inc.