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From: christer@cs.umu.se (Christer Ericson)
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Subject: Re: A couple of color questions...
Message-ID: <1991May6.095349.9102@cs.umu.se>
Date: 6 May 91 09:53:49 GMT
References: <1991May01.014734.25231@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <1991May4.222227.9364@agate.berkeley.edu> <52482@apple.Apple.COM>
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While we're bashing Apple and their color icons we could as well flame the one
who designed the cicn format. When there is a B&W bitmap why couldn't it have
been the first entry of the record so we could have called PlotIcon with the
CIconHandle directly on a non-color machine (ie an SE) instead of having to
call CopyBits or having both cicn's (for color machines) and ICON's (for B&W).
Okay okay, this is a pretty minor thing, but it seems pretty stupid to me
anyway. Is there some sort of "hidden problem" here too?! :-)


| Christer Ericson                            Internet: christer@cs.umu.se |
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