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From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: INIT Icons?
Message-ID: <7417@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 24 May 89 18:03:47 GMT
References: <104700056@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney)
Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco
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In article <104700056@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>How do I make my INIT display an icon as the system boots?  I can't
>seem to find any documentation on this feature.  
>
>Where is it documented?  I've looked through Inside Mac I, II, IV, V,
>and Mac Programming Secrets.  Is there some book/article/TN that
>describes "everything you need to know about writing code resource
>type XYZ?"

You draw it yourself from inside the INIT.  It's pretty easy; the only
problem is that you can't be sure you aren't stepping on someone else's
display.  The PlotIcon routine is documented on page I-473; however, if
you want to do the kind of fancy-schmancy stuff that others do, like
having it grow from a point or march across the screen, you'll have to
use CopyBits instead.
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