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From: omh@nancy (Owen M. Hartnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Maybe I'm dumb but...
Message-ID: <23120@brunix.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 88 02:48:54 GMT
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Reply-To: omh@brunix.UUCP (Owen M. Hartnett)
Organization: Brown University Computer Science Dept.
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Keywords: DrawPicture

I can't figure out why this doesn't work:

Draw a Picture in MacPaint, save to Scrapbook, copy it out of Scrapbook
with ResEdit and paste into my application.

Still in ResEdit, open the picture (Open general) and alter the picFrame 
rectangle so that it is relative to point 0,0 (i.e. change the left coordinate
to 0 and adjust the right coordinate so that it maintains the same width, do
likewise for top and bottom).

Now, from my application, Get the picture, and call 
	DrawPicture(myPic,myPic^^.picFrame);

Now, wouldn't you expect the picture to get drawn in the upper left corner
of your window?  Nah...  It's somewhere in your window.

I've even done:

	FrameRect(myPic^^,picFrame);
	DrawPicture(myPic,myPic^^.picFrame);

and the Picture is *not* inside the Rectangle.

...and, if you try to install myPic in the windowPic field of your window,
you don't know where it's going to go, either.

Any ideas?




Owen Hartnett
Brown University Computer Science

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