>>Does anybody have a good String->Picture routine (and one that will
>>go Picture->String as well?). I am writing a little resource
>>extractor routine that I would like to have convert some named
>>resources (strings) into the pictures that show up in ResEdit.
>
>Check out Michio Ono's plugins at:
> http://micono.hoops.ne.jp/rb/index_e.html
>
>He's got one that can (among other things) convert a picture to/from
>a MemoryBlock. And you can use MemoryBlock.StringValue to convert
>this to/from a string.
>
>However, this may not work for what you're trying to do -- do you
>mean that you need to interpret PICT data, of the sort stored as a
>PICT resource in ResEdit? If so that's a different matter entirely,
>and I don't have a good solution for it on hand. You'd need either a
>plugin or some Declares.
if you aren't completely anti-harddisk you can create a temporary file,
write to the ressourcefork a ressource of type PICT with addresssource
and then read it back with getpicture.
matthias
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