This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.
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Dave, "I'd think it would be just easier to create an 8bit pixmap and hand blit the sun data into it. Then openpicture/copybits/closepicture and add it as a resource." If he can create the PICT on the Mac, that's the way to go without a doubt. However, I was under…
alan, Making a PICT file which only consists of one 8-bit pixmap would not really be that difficult. In this regard, PICT is not any more difficult to export to than TIFF (as a matter of fact, TIFF is much nastier!). Just write out a 512 byte header, the low-order…
John, "CanOpener is a commercial product?" Yes. Either MacWarehouse or MacConnection are the best bet. Ed Ludwig, Abbott Systems Read action !
John, CanOpener if a file browser/data retriever/simple data librarian that runs on the Macintosh (all known Macs as of this writing). CanOpener uses a two-tiered approach to getting useful text, graphics, or sounds out of a file. The first level is a modular filter approach that is useful if the…
John, The product's name is "CanOpener" from Abbott Systems. IM 6 was given out to developers at the Dev Conference 2 years ago. (2 years? Has it been that long?) Ed Ludwig, Abbott Systems Read action !re Enter reply. (/EXIT when done) 1: What does "CanOpener" do? What machine does…
John, The information to parse PICT1 and PICT2 are, unfortunately, scattered over several sources. PICT1 is covered in a tech note and PICT2 is covered in IM 5. The new 32-Bit opcodes are covered in the docs for 32-Bit QuickDraw, which are in IM 6 and probably are available from…
Dear Mr. Syndesis Corp, Opcode 0x009a and 0x009b are the new opcodes DirectBits and DirectBitsRgn (respectively) that were added to support 32-Bit direct rgb pixel maps. These are described in the documentation for 32-Bit QuickDraw. I guess it was intended by Apple that these opcodes would be self-terminating (0x000000ff) because…