schriste@uceng.UC.EDU (Steven V. Christensen) (07/28/90)
Hi, Can someone tell me how to convert a MacPaint-type picture to the Mac startup screen? Thanks, Steven -- Steven V. Christensen U.C. College of Eng. schriste@uceng.uc.edu For the adventurous: uccba.uc.edu!elf0!svc
jd231825@longs.lance.Colostate.Edu (Jeffrey Scott Detweiler) (08/01/90)
In article <5635@uceng.UC.EDU> schriste@uceng.UC.EDU (Steven V. Christensen) writes:
Can someone tell me how to convert a MacPaint-type
picture to the Mac startup screen?
Thanks,
Steven
Steven,
There are quite a few ways of going about this, but my favorite way is
to use a public domain program called "Viewpaint" to make a
startupscreen from a Macpaint file. You load your paint file into
Viewpaint, and once you get it centered on the screen just the way you
like it, you hit "enter" from the numeric keypad. It will then save
it as a StartupScreen (be sure to save it in your system folder). I
haven't seen this program at any ftp sites, so if you have problems
finding it from some PD source, write to me and I can send it to you.
Superpaint will also save macpaint files as StartupScreens, but I
don't know if you have this program.
These are the only two programs that come to mind that easily create
StartupScreens. By the way, if you want to make a startupscreen for a
monitor other than the standard SE size monditor, you have to go about
it completely differently. Let me know if you need to do it for a
larger monitor.
Have fun,
Jefffeinberg@acsu.buffalo.edu (john a feinberg) (08/01/90)
MacPaint 2.0 also saves files as startup screens-just push the button. Also, for whatever program you use, you have to be careful to both put the screen in the system folder, *and* to name the picture StartUpScreen, or it just won't do anything. MacPaint 2.0 automatically sticks StartUpScreen in the file box when you push the save as startupscreen button, but SuperPaint does not. Now, I have a question of my own: I have a 2-page monitor for my SE. Is there any way I can make a startup screen for that? Also, I have saved what was on the screen with the command-shift- whatever f-key (3, maybe?). It saved the screen contents into a file, fine. I just can't read it! Is there any way to get any program to read what's in the file? John Feinberg SUNY Buffalo
18215MES@MSU.BITNET (08/01/90)
OOPS - originally posted this to hardware group! Anyway - 'Exposure' will make a 21" start up screen! YIPES It's Great!
jd231825@longs.lance.Colostate.Edu (Jeff Detweiler) (08/02/90)
In article <31828@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> feinberg@acsu.buffalo.edu (john a feinberg) writes:
I have a 2-page monitor for my SE. Is there any way I can make a startup screen
for that? Also, I have saved what was on the screen with the command-shift-
whatever f-key (3, maybe?). It saved the screen contents into a file, fine. I
just can't read it! Is there any way to get any program to read what's in the
file?
John Feinberg
SUNY Buffalo
John,
You have to know how to use Resedit to make a startupscreen for
anything but the dinky SE monitor. Here are the steps:
1) take your picture, painting, whatever and copy it into the
Scrapbook: this automatically converts it to PICT resource format.
2) Load Resedit, and using resedit, open the Scrapbook file located
in your system folder. (Don't access the scrapbook from the apple
menu!)
3) Open the resource PICT, and find the picture you want, and then
COPY it.
4) Using NEW from the file menu, create a new file in your system
folder called "StartupScreen."
5) PASTE the picture into the Startupscreen file. It should paste in
as a PICT resource.
6) Open the PICT resource (you should be able to see your picture)
and choose Get Info from file menu.
7) Change the ID number to 0 (zero). Close everything and save
changes.
Wallah! Startupscreen! If you have a color monitor, you can have a
color picture for a startupscreen. Follow the same steps. But before
I go, I'd like to give credit to Chris Johnson (author of Gatekeeper) for originally
teaching me how to do this.
Have fun!
Jeffdarin@chem.ucsd.edu (Darin R. Kent) (04/12/91)
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