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From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Resedit (Icon Swap) Help
Message-ID: <3070@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jun 88 06:11:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: polyslo.3070
References: <2290019@hpsadla.HP> <8786@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <8786@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> rsvp@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (R. Scott V. Paterson) writes:
>I'm using Resedit to try to cut and paste icons.  I would like to
>take an icon from the desktop and paste it into an application.
>I can copy fine but the pasting will not work  The icon will not
>paste to the application.  Any ideas?

  Well with out going into a lot of details, ResEdit doesn't put ICON's on
the clipboard ina form that your standard applications can use.

  Solution:

  When the Icon you want is on the screen {at any time, finder, resEdit, ect}
type cmd-shift-3, that will take a "snapshot" of the screen and save it as
a MacPaint document on your disk.  You can then go into most any graphics
editor that read MacPaint files and cut/paste it where ever you want.

  Hope this helps!!


-- 
David M. O'Rourke

Disclaimer: I don't represent the school.  All opinions are mine!