dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) (06/18/91)
Last week I asked how you'd reopen a metafile to add some more stuff on the end. Here's a summary of the responses I received: Nothing! After a bit more reading of Petzold and the SDK manual, I've come to the conclusion that the line I quoted about GetMetaFile making a metafile available for modification is in error. You can't do it other than by replaying the whole thing into a new metafile, a very slow process. (I'd still love to be contradicted...) Petzold says that metafiles are mainly used for transferring things to the clipboard, not for a program's own use. That makes sense: there's just too much missing for them to be usable. Duncan Murdoch dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu