Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ut-sally!im4u!suhler
From: suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: YAHQ (Yet Another Hypercard Question)
Message-ID: <2227@im4u.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 08:17:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: im4u.2227
Posted: Fri Oct 16 08:17:47 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Oct-87 20:55:59 EDT
References: <1168@mipos3.intel.com>
Reply-To: suhler@im4u.UUCP (Paul A. Suhler)
Distribution: na
Organization: Univ of Texas Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept
Lines: 23
Summary: ICONs into HC

In article <1168@mipos3.intel.com> jroberts@mipos3.intel.com (Joe Roberts) writes:
>    I have tried using ResEdit to copy some icons to Hypercard. I have tried
>    to paste new icons into the ICON resource (this is where Hypercard stores
>    all it's icon ideas) but it does not actually get pasted into the ICON
>    resource but the ICN# resource. Can someone tell me how to paste new icons
>    to the ICON resource. I could create them in ICON but this is far to time
>    comsuming. Thanks in advance.

I asked everyone I could around here, and it doesn't seem possible
to create icons from scratch purely inside HyperCard.  In ResEdit
I couldn't copy from ICN# and paste into ICON (or into anything
else, like MacPaint).  If you can find an ICON you like, you can
copy and paste it, but most of the good ones I found were ICN#s.

I was reduced to using ResEdit to opening the ICON window, creating
a new one, and opening the window of the ICN# I liked beside it.
Then I would manually copy it, bit-by-bit.  No joke that it's slow.

The only reasonable way would be to use Iconographer (?) or some
other icon-creation application.  Does anyone know how to turn an
ICN# into an ICON or move them into and out of MacPaint?
-- 
Paul Suhler        suhler@im4u.UTEXAS.EDU	512-474-9517/471-3903