export icons..

[J. Landman Gay]

On 12/30/10 10:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> baccheschi wrote:
>
>  > may tell me, please, if and how is it possible to export from
>  > a stack to another the icons..?I am trying to rewrite an old
>  > stack of HyperCard and i would use its icons..Thanksmario
>
> HC icons are stored as resources in the legacy Mac OS resource fork.
>
> Good news: You can use LiveCode's built-in getResources function to
> obtain a list of resources in a file, and use the getResource function
> to obtain the actual image data for the icon.
>
> Bad news: I have no idea how to translate that bitmap data into a form
> that will work well in a LiveCode image object.
>
> Anyone here know how do to that?

I extracted the HC icons and saved them to a stack quite a while ago. I 
just uploaded it to RevOnline. Anyone who needs the original HC icons 
can search there for a stack called "HC Icons".

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