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From: Peter.Cook@f421.n109.z1.Fidonet.Org (Peter Cook)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Color Picts in HC2.0
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Date: 13 Mar 91 15:24:43 GMT
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BL> I wrote a short stack to do exactly the thing you`re trying to do;
BL> namely, display MacDraw II images saved in PICT II (color) format.
BL> In my application, I was not trying to write a "browser" that could
BL> open any old PICT file -- I only wanted to display one from a limited,
BL> fixed collection of images. To build this small image library, I used
BL> the Clipboard in MacDraw II to import the PICT's into ResEdit 2.1, in
BL> which I converted the PICT's into standard PICT resource form, and the
BL> used Steve Maller's ResCopier Stack to import them into my stack.  I
BL> then used the Picture command with the 'resource' argument to fetch
BL> the images directly from the resource fork of the stack and display th
 
Thanks for the informative message. The more I think about it, the more
I think I'm going to recommend using PICT resources rather than
fetching external PICT files. That will make the package self-contained
and more transportable.

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