Re: [B2-devel] TESyncScrap (Thoughts on SheepShaver and Basilisk II)

[Alexei S. <ale...@gm...>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Robert Munafo <mr...@gm...> wrote:

> That might help a little bit -- but the main issue is on the host side.
>
> Apple does not provide 64-bit runtime libraries for any of Carbon,
> such as is needed to convert PICT scrap data into another bitmap
> format. In fact, all of QuickDraw is missing, and you can't even view
> a PICT image on your Leopard (or later) Mac if you have it set to boot
> with the 64-bit kernel (except by transferring the PICT data into an
> emulator running an older Mac OS).
>

We could always do our own decoding of PICT data and convert it to a
different format that is suitable to put on the host clipboard (in which
case, the host wouldn't even need to be a Mac!)

For example, this open source library is able to parse PICTs:

http://www.paintlib.de/paintlib/

-Alexei