In article <5v8uoh$djj$1 at niobium.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk>, ptaylor at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Dr. P.L. Taylor) writes:
>>Your choice of a bitmap is not the simplest PICT output -- it
>>is kind of tricky. PICT is mostly a vector drawing format,
>>like Postscript, and adding bitmaps requires some complex
>>compression and bit counting.
>>Not at all - it could hardly be simpler in fact.
>Takes just 3 lines of code:
>>OpenPicture(aPicHandle);
>CopyBits(myBitMap, myBitMap, myBitMap.bounds, myBitMap.bounds,
> SrcCopy, Nil);
>ClosePicture;
>>aPicHandle is a PicHandle which will hold the picture.
That's what it looks like inside a Mac, but none of those calls are
available on any other platform, so if you want to have a program that can
write a PICT *in general* it is a serious amount of work. This is why
PICT never became a widely accepted standard outside of the Mac platform.
Regards,
David Mathog
mathog at seqaxp.bio.caltech.edu
Manager, sequence analysis facility, biology division, Caltech
