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Re: Picture Nil

To: REALbasic Network Users Group <realbasic-nug at lists dot realsoftware dot com>
Subject: Re: Picture Nil
From: Seth Willits <bmxer01 at pacbell dot net>
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 21:05:52 -0700
On 6/1/02 8:09 PM, the NSA intercepted the following message from "Joseph J.
Strout" <joe at realsoftware dot com>:

>>> 1) Are you sure Icon.Graphics is nil?
>> 
>> Yes. If I try and do anything with Icon.graphics it dies, and the debugger
>> shows that it is nil. It's quite strange. I haven't yet tried your
>> suggestion, if it works then great, thank you, but what in the world is
>> causing .graphics to be nil?
> 
> Lots of pictures don't have a non-nil Graphics property.  This is the
> case for any picture you can't draw into.  I missed the start of this
> thread... why do you find this surprising?  Is "Icon" a picture
> created with NewPicture?

I didn't realize that. I was trying to get the color values of specific
pixels in a picture from a resource file. I guess I'll have to draw it into
a picture and get the values there.



Seth Willits
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