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From: mark@dartvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Resource Questions
Message-ID: <7244@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 00:29:08 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 29 00:29:08 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 2-Oct-87 01:28:19 EDT
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Keywords: PICT, ID numbers


In message <7238@dartvax.UUCP> Earle R. Horton (earleh@dartvax) writes:
>In article <127200006@inmet>, lipsett@inmet.UUCP writes:
>-> 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.
>I don't know.  I think it's part of an attempt to create non-conflicting
>resource IDs.

It *is* an attempt to create non-conflicting ID numbers, but it can be 
overridden.  In a project I worked on, we used digitized pictures of the
Dartmouth campus in PICT format (see below), but we used the "Get Info"
item from the File menu to change the ID number of each PICT to match
an internal variable we were using.

>-> 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)?
>If you want to quickly create a PICT resource, then "Copy" a picture
>from MacPaint or MacDraw or something, and "Paste" the thing into the
>ScrapBook.  You can get the 'PICT' out of the ScrapBook using ResEdit.
>You still have to put up with the funny ID, however.
>
>Earle

That is exactly what we did, and it worked great.  Now you don't have to
put up with screwy ID numbers anymore.

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Cheers,

-- 
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