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From: d88-jwa@nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Pict (or MacPaint) -> ICON
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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)
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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 ?

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