Re: Setting and getting a file's icon in OS X?
Re: Setting and getting a file's icon in OS X?
- Subject: Re: Setting and getting a file's icon in OS X?
- From: Kai Edwards <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 21:28:58 +0000
on Mon, 9 Sep 2002 23:57:31 -0600, "W. Eric Tyson" <email@hidden>
wrote:
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Back in OS 9 it was possible to access the icon of files and folders
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like this:
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--- begin simple script ---
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set someFolderIPicked to (choose folder with prompt "select your
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folder") as string
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set theFolder to "Some:Path:to:a:Folder"
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set icon of folder (theFolder as string) to icon of folder
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someFolderIPicked
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--- end ----
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I think that's how it was done. anyway, i cannot seem to access the
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icons of files and folders in OS X 10.2. Does anyone know how to do
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this.
I believe 'icon' is a property of the Finder's class item - so you'd
probably have had a Finder tell block in there somewhere.
For example, this works for me in OS 8.1 thru OS 9.1 [1]:
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set copyItem to alias "Some:Item:To:Copy" -- change as appropriate
set pasteItem to alias "Some:Item:To:Paste" -- change as appropriate
tell application "Finder"
set icon of pasteItem to icon of copyItem
end tell
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However, last time I looked at an OS X Finder dictionary, the references to
icon looked something like this:
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icon icon family -- the icon bitmap of the item
Class icon family: (NOT AVAILABLE YET) A family of icons
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Try checking your Finder dictionary in OS 10.2. If the Class icon family
entry is still marked '(NOT AVAILABLE YET)', you may have to wait a little
longer to repeat the trick.
HTH
Kai
[1] IIRC, the composite Finder syntax may have caused problems in later
versions. I believe the workaround I used was to evaluate the icon data
first - something like this:
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tell application "Finder"
set theIcon to icon of copyItem
set icon of pasteItem to theIcon
end tell
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