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From: hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU (HARTKOPF JEFFREY M)
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Subject: custom icons question
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Date: 1 Jun 89 16:47:38 GMT
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Question about IIGS toolbox programming:  How does one generate and use
custom icons in a program?  I have some fairly small (maybe 15 by 25 pixels)
shapes that I want to draw in a desktop program.  I tried plotting them point
by point but that is much too slow, so I guess using icons would probably be
the fastest way.  What I need to know is, after I generate the hex
representation, (from the icon editor IconEd), how do I actually make an icon
out of it, and then how do I print that icon on the screen?  Or would it be
easier to somehow read the icons in from a standard icon file?  I don't know.

I'm using TML Pascal so Pascal examples would be greatly appreciated, although
I also know C.  Thanks very much for any help.

-- Jeff Hartkopf