Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!uunet!mcsun!sunic!kth!draken!d88-jwa From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Pict (or MacPaint) -> ICON Message-ID: <1775@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 26 Sep 89 11:16:05 GMT References: <5460@tank.uchicago.edu> <18300006@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte) Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 19 In article <18300006@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> hoffman@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >Just a thought, but if you open the PICT (after pasting into ResEdit) >as an ICON or ICN# resource, that might work. I haven't tried it, Really, please let's avoid the "I haven't tried it and definately don't know what I'm talking about, but..." posts. Try a private mail instead. Of course you're wrong. The PICT format is a byte-code (or integer-code, if you use PICT2) object oriented format, where each byte means "draw a line" or "fill an oval" or something. The ICN# (and ICON) are bit maps (admittedly the PICT format supports bitmaps: If you really lucked out you'd probably see half your icon misaligned or something... But no better than that.) Why not edit the ICON in ResEdit ? h+@nada.kth.se -- Availability == 1 / (Brains x Beauty)