Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!psych.toronto.edu!stephan
From: stephan@psych.toronto.edu (Stephan Hamann)
Subject: Accessing PICT resources from Hypercard
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.141757.14271@psych.toronto.edu>
Sender: stephan@psych.toronto.edu (Stephan Hamann)
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 14:17:57 GMT


I have a collection of resource files that contain graphics 
which I want to use in an experiment, but I have been having
trouble accessing them in an easy way. 

Each resource file contains 7 pictures of type PICT, and I want
to 1) take the 1st, 3rd, and 5th picture of each of the 300
resource files and 2) copy the image to a separate card in a HyperCard
stack. I can do this manually by accessing the resources through
ResEdit, then pasting them by hand into my stack, but this is
very time consuming. Is there any way to either directly access
the resource files from Hypercard to read the images into a stack,
or at least some way to automate pasting the images into a stack
from the Scrapbook, once I've used ResEdit to fill up the Scrapbook
with images from the resource files?

I have SuperCard, but I haven't had time to learn it yet; maybe if
this can be done through SuperCard it is worth spending the time
right now to learn it? 


thanks in advance,

Stephan Hamann  [stephan@psych.toronto.edu]