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From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric K. Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Color PICT cluts
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Date: 11 Apr 89 04:37:19 GMT
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Organization: Lexington Software Design, 72A Lowell St., Lexington, MA 02173
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I am writing some code to display 8-bit color PICT files on a Mac II.
I need to get the color lookup table information from the PICT somehow.
What is the approved way of doing this?  I remember PixelPaint used to
not do this correctly, and someone wrote a program called PictPal that
stripped out the clut and put it into a resource that PixelPaint expected.

I would prefer not to interpret the PICT OpCodes directly.  It seems that
I should be hooking into the StdBits routine or creating a GDevice with
a very maleable pallette. 

Does anyone have any hints for me?

Thanks in advance.

-Eric


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