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From: fry@huma1.HARVARD.EDU (David Fry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Startup Screens
Message-ID: <3621@husc6.harvard.edu>
Date: 19 Dec 87 18:27:19 GMT
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Keywords: MacII startup screens

In article <1597@ssc-vax.UUCP> housen@ssc-vax.UUCP (Kevin Housen) writes:
>A couple of questions regarding StartupScreens....
>
>(1) After looking through some startup screens it looks like
>they are just a bit image 342x512.  Is this true?
    On all machines except Mac II's, yes, this is true.
>
>(2) Is it possible to use larger startup screens on the
>MacII.  Also, on the MacII, is it possible to display a pixel
>image rather than a bit image?
    The Mac II ROM knows how to display a MacPlus-type
StartupScreen properly centered on the screen.  But you didn't
pay $5000 for that!  Much better, it will use any file with a
'PICT' resource of ID = 0 in its resource fork as a
StartupScreen.  The PICT can be any size and will be centered
on the screen.  It can be an old fashioned "Mac I" PICT or a
Mac II "PICT2" PICT, complete with color graphics.
    You can create one of these by selecting some graphics in
your favorite graphics program, copying it to the clipboard,
running ResEdit and pasting it into a resource of type 'PICT'.
Use GetInfo to set the ID to 0.
    You can also use Mac II specific programs that are
floating around now to create hundreds of gray scale and color
StartupScreens.  Such programs include Giffer, Pixel Paint,
Supervision (I believe), and my program, GrayView.  

David Fry				fry@huma1.harvard.EDU
Department of Mathematics		fry@harvma1.bitnet
Harvard University			...!harvard!huma1!fry
Cambridge, MA  02138		

>
>                                     Thanks heaps,
>
>                                     Kevin Housen