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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Resource Creation
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Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 19:12:55 EDT
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In article <1978@tekig4.TEK.COM> briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm) writes:
>>2.  How can one create a PICT resource (graphically would be nice
>MacDraw is one way.  The Save As dialog box allows the setting of the file
>format, of which PICT is an option.  You then are creating a file with a PICT
>resource in it.

This is true, but very misleading. When you Save As PICT in MacDraw,
you create a file with a 512 byte header followed by the contents of a
PICT resource as data. To use it as a resource, you'd have to allocate
a handle, lock the handle, FSRead the data into the handle, then do an
AttachResource.  It is much, much easier to just select a piece of a
MacDraw document and hit "Copy". This puts the graphics onto the
clipboard as a PICT resource, that can be pasted into a file in
ResEdit directly, with no intermediate steps.  (If you want to do a
lot of them, just paste them to the ScrapBook, then open "ScrapBook
File" from inside ResEdit.)