Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site inmet.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!bbnccv!inmet!bhyde From: bhyde@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: graphics query Message-ID: <26700036@inmet.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 12:22:00 EDT Article-I.D.: inmet.26700036 Posted: Wed Sep 25 12:22:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 10:03:49 EDT References: <11747@rochester.UUCP> Lines: 19 Nf-ID: #R:rochester:-1174700:inmet:26700036:000:1038 Nf-From: inmet!bhyde Sep 25 12:22:00 1985 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.