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In article <232@hao.UUCP>, bill@hao.UUCP (Bill Roberts) writes:
> So, the questions remain:
> 	A) How does one convert a MacPaint file into a PICT resource so that 
> 	   the MacPaint file can be displayed in a window (in an application) 
> 	   at runtime?
> 	B) Where can I find out how to use ResEdit1.0D12?  Which software 
> 	   supplement documents it?  And what is the general address to write
> 	   too to get the various software supplements? 
> 	C) Or, do I have to right an application to convert MacPaint into a 
> 	   PICT resource file (or better yet, a bmap resource)?

Bill
  The way I've heard people describe the procedure (haven't done it yet,
  but will in a future application), is to 1) Copy your paint picture to the
  clipboard using the program of your choice (Paint Cutter, Artisto, MacPaint,
  etc...).  Then open the clipboard and paste in your new picture.  You will 
  not be able to see the entire PICT in the scrapbook since it only shows you
  part of a PICT.  Now go into ResEdit 1.D12 and open up the scrapbook file.
  Look for your PICT and cut/copy it.  Then open up your Application or the
  Applications Resource file (not the RMaker file), and paste it in.  You
  can use the <I>nfo command to change the PICTs ID number, etc...  Then all
  you do is use the appropriate Toolbox routines to Get/Open the PICT and
  display it in your window (don't have the exact toolbox routine names in
  my mind right now).  The error you got in REdit was because it only
  decompiles some resources, and it doesn't support decompiling PICTs at the
  moment.  Hope this helps in your programming quest.
  
  In answer to your plea for help on ResEdit documentation.  You can get that
  in the third supplement (Volume I, Issue 3).  You can now obtain these
  through APDA (Apple Programmer's and Developer's Association) and they used
  to be available from Apple Mailing Facility (these may have been entirely
  moved to APDA by now).
  
  Hope all this has helped.
  
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Brian Bezanson {seismo,ihnp4,allegra,topaz,harvard}!uwvax!gumby!bezanson
Manta Software Corp.				  bezanson@gumby.wisc.edu