Re: Hires Graphics trouble

["Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com>]

In article <9f61cf69.0207012031.7bb5f57d@posting.google.com>, 
ludditetech@mac.com (Simon Williams) wrote:

> That works perfectly for Dazzle Draw images, but Mousepaint pictures
> come up with vertical bands of 'garbage'... obviously the two formats
> are incompatible as neither application can open the other's files, so
> I suppose they would require different methods of loading.
> By the looks of how Mousepaint treats Dazzle Draw images, I'd say the
> two don't even use the same screen resolution...
>
> Anyone have the original docs for Mousepaint? Maybe there's an answer
> in there...
>
> SW
>
> PS thanks for all the help/suggestions.

Apple Mousepaint can only handle hi-res pictures, not double hi-res. You
said earlier the picture was 17KB, are you sure it isn't 17 _blocks_? The
ProDOS catalog command shows file sizes in blocks, where each block is 512
bytes (0.5KB). Hi-res pictures are normally 17 blocks long (16 blocks for
the data plus 1 index block).

If it is a standard hi-res picture, which is the only format Mousepaint can
load or save in, then a simple:

  HGR
  BLOAD picturename,A$2000

done from the command line should always work.

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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand

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