StartUp Screen XTND Translator
Copyright © 1992, MarketSoft Canada
By R. Mark Fleming
521 Albert Street
Kingston, Ont.
Canada, K7K 4M5
<flemingm@qucdn.QueensU.CA>

This tranlator is free, no money can be charged for it.  It was created from the skeleton of Claris XTND sample code for a MacPaint XTND translator.

XTND Translator work with applications that support XTND technology to allow them to import “new file formats”, by only adding a translator to the system.  This translator needs to be placed in a folder called “Claris Translators” which is inside the folder “Claris” in the System Folder.  Once installed any program that uses Claris’s XTND technology to import graphics (ex. File Maker Pro, MacDraw Pro, MacWrite II or Claris Works) will be able import B&W startup screen.  These startup screens are usually created from MacPaint document (with a file type of: SCRN) and the size of a MacPlus screen (512 by 342).

Sample of import file dialog box from MacWrite II with only “StartUp Screens” translator selected.