>>>
>>> Craig,
>>>
>>> Why don't you save your PICT in a file first and use USR 
>>> ConvertImageFile right after?
>>>
>>> Alain
>> That's easy enough, but not as flexible as the below (if this works, 
>> I adapted it from my GWorld sourced same)
>> You will need :
>
> Here is the function slightly reworked to make it in local mode and 
> with the correct Toolbox missing declaration, as a bonus I have 
> created a handy Toolbox alias, I tried it and that worked beautifully 
> (caution with linebreaks):
>

Nice, but too bad you Mode'd it. :) (Globals Rebellion Leader Here, as 
in Fightin' For. :) )

"Alias Pastor", your new name. :)  ...That was one long alias!


Glad you like the widget.

What I need real seriously is a shared library for Carbon that does 
JPEG decompression and which is already compiled, in order to get 
around the massive bug in Quicktime for OSX and DecodeBlocks  for 
images that have decompression errors. QT used to bail properly, then 
display the portion that it got completed, but in OSX it fries whatever 
program has called the JPEGDecompress component somewhere in 
DecodeBlocks.  Quite frustrating.

So, Slide Freebie is canceled for OSX until they fix Quicktime, or I 
can find a shared library that I can use to get around that. I have one 
from the JPEG group, but there's no chance in helvetica I can figure 
out how to compile that.  I think Osamu posted a JPEG library thing one 
time, but not sure if it handles progressive types, and I don't have it 
local anymore.

Robert