Draw Picts

Volume Number: 3

Issue Number: 9

Column Tag: Basic Forum

Draw Picts from Basic

By Steven Leach, Chemical Engineer, Santa Clara, CA

Create PICT Files for MacDraw™ using MS Basic

This a solution to a problem that I was having when I was writing a rather

complex figure in BASIC and wanted to save my very valuable work, but wouldn’t or

couldn’t use the clipboard, or scrapbook. It seemed to me that the names for the BASIC

pictures and the PICT file of the scrapbook seemed awful close so I thought why not

bypass the scrapbook altogether ? My first step was to get the format for the

MacDraw™ files. I located this on Compuserve in Tech Note 27. But beware there

appears to be an error in the wording of this document for it states “If your

application is going to create or modify information that you want to make available to

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