Re: custome icon on an applescript in OS X?
Re: custome icon on an applescript in OS X?
- Subject: Re: custome icon on an applescript in OS X?
- From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2002 12:58:52 -0400
on 02-10-09 9:34 AM, Philip Aker at email@hidden wrote:
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That's hard to say because I usually work with ".r" files in either
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CodeWarrior or Project Builder. For the purpose at hand I suggest to
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use Apple's ResEdit 2.1.3 For working with ResEdit you'll probably want
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to drop down to OS 9 because it's now a legacy product and sometimes
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acts a little kinky in Classic.
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If you don't actually need to edit the icons, you can use the Rez and
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DeRez located in /Developer/Tools/ to inject the new icons into the app
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(man Rez and man DeRez).
Don't change the icons in an AppleScript applet unless you also know how to
change the other resources that tie the icons and the application together
-- at least under Mac OS 9 and earlier. Failing to do this the right way
will very likely cause your new icon to appear as the standard icon for ALL
of your AppleScript applets, and also for every applet on every machine
where your applet gets installed.
Way back in 1993 or 1994, a well-known set of applets and scripts was
distributed widely, and it caused exactly this problem.
Changing icons properly requires a good understanding of the technical
intricacies of Inside Macintosh.
--
Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
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