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From: bhyde@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: graphics query
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Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 12:22:00 EDT
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I have found MacPascal an acceptable way to build PICT resources.
It is a little buggy around using user resource files, but once
you have a senerio that works then it works out fine.  This is
a good technique if your pictures are can benifit from a procedural
approach to defining them.
  Fonts are a great way to get a lot of little graphics into an 
application.  Particularly since they are fast, and well packed.  I usually
have a application specific font with most of the little icons and
trimmings in it.  I learned this trick from MacPaint where all the tools are
defined in a font.
  The scrapbook is a good tool for getting applications to  produce
a PICT resource for you.  That's good for getting graphs out of 
Microsoft-graph and into your application.   A good trick for applications
that need "graph paper."
  The source of the picture frame seems to be a mess.  Sometimes the
clipping region's bounds are the safest thing.  I am unaware of what the
"right" source for the frame is, anybody know?
   ben hyde, cambridge.