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From: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Color PICTs
Message-ID: <10786@claris.com>
Date: 5 Jan 90 02:03:30 GMT
References: <126900138@p.cs.uiuc.edu> <5892@ncar.ucar.edu>
Reply-To: peirce@claris.com (Michael Peirce)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <5892@ncar.ucar.edu> hpoppe@bierstadt.UCAR.EDU (Herb Poppe) writes:
>If I recall correctly, the latest version or MacDraw II allows you to
>copy to the Clipboard in color or B/W. (There is some kind of
>option/preference where you specify your choice.) Previous versions
>only copied B/W.
>
>There is another potential problem you may encounter in trying to paste
>the picture as a PICT resource into a file. I had this problem with
>my version of MacDraw II (which at 1.0v4 is not the latest) and ResEdit 1.2b3.
>I discovered that MacDraw II copies two versions of the picture to the
>Clipboard. One, the first, is its own format (type MDPL),
>the second is in PICT format. (To see this effect, paste a MacDraw II
>picture from the Clipboard to the Scrapbook -- the Scrapbook will list the
>types). When I went to paste the MacDraw II picture with ResEdit
>into the resource fork of an application I was developing, ResEdit
>only pasted the first version, which was the MacDraw II format and not
>PICT. I had to give up using MacDraw II for this purpose and revert
>to MacDraw 1.9.5, which only copies the PICT format to the Clipboard.
>(This was "ok" because I wasn't working with a color picture.)

Yes, as of MacDraw II 1.1 there is a User Color Clipboard preference.

Also, I use MacDraw II all the time to create PICTs for use in ResEdit.
I usually take an extra step though, I paste the Cut PICTs into the ScrapBook
and then open the scrap book with ResEdit.  It's true that the PICT and the
MDPL resources are both there, but I simply select the PICT I want in
ResEdit and Copy.  This only grabs the PICT which I can then Paste into a
resource file.

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