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From: stew@endor.harvard.edu (Stew Rubenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Resource Creation
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Date: Sat, 26-Sep-87 20:23:31 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 26 20:23:31 1987
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In article <127200006@inmet> lipsett@inmet.UUCP writes:
>
>Two resource questions:
>
>1.  How can one use ResEdit to create a resource of a given type *with
>a particular resource ID*?  It really seems to want to give it its own
>random ID.

Let it get a random ID, and then change the ID to what you want with
the Get Info command.

>2.  How can one create a PICT resource (graphically would be nice; if
>not, how does the internal format of a PICT resource differ from what
>one might write into a file from an application that uses the
>QuickDraw picture routines to create same)?

The easiest way to get PICTs is to create them with whatever program you
want: SuperPaint, MacDraw, whatever; copy them to the clipboard, and
paste them into the scrapbook.  Then you can open up the ScrapBook in
ResEdit, and copy the PICTs out and into whatever you want.

The PICT file format is documented in Tech Note 27.  In a nutshell,
it's a 512 byte header (which may be written as all zeroes) followed
by a normal QuickDraw PICT.

Stew Rubenstein
Cambridge Scientific Computing, Inc.
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