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Re: Adding an icon to an application folder

Why don't you use TIFFTuner?

From my experience it's made for just that. It integrates nicely into any workflow. You simply launch it, run PhotoShop, copy into the clipboard what you want to have as an icon, and then switch to TIFFTuner, say new, and paste. It'll let you change various setting to determine level of translucency, add alpha-channels, exporting, and also exporting as icns file.

It's easy to "learn" and intuitive to use, cheap, efficient, and has never crashed once so far for me. I can't state anything on documentation, I never needed one.

You can download it from <http://www.versiontracker.com>

Alex

On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 06:56 AM, Robert Fischer wrote:

On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 09:43 AM, Cidric John wrote:

Hi! I'm sorry if I am a bit off topic here.

I'm a cocoa developer that would like to add a customized icon to its application folder (not to the application itself, this I know how to do). After searching for about an hour on Apple's web site, I gave up: don't know how to do it! I have created a ".psd" icon for my folder using Apple's icon kit. But then I don't know how to properly set it in my folder. I've tried to "copy-paste" the thumb icon in the finder info windows, but this leaves an ugly white background. Does anyone know how to properly set an icon to a folder either using an ".icns" or ".psd" file? Thanks in advance!

.psd is PhotoShop, isn't it? The Finder will not accept this kind of images, AFAIK. Please use one of several icon tools. My suggestion is FolderIcon for composing icons from existing images.
The "ugly white background" comes from the missing transparency mask. You'll have to paste in a image with transparent border, i.e. tiff with alpha channel or gif with transparent color.

R.

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