Re: setting custom finder icons
Re: setting custom finder icons
- Subject: Re: setting custom finder icons
- From: Walter Ian Kaye <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 18:20:41 -0800
At 12:48p +0100 02/18/2004, Brennan didst inscribe upon an electronic papyrus:
I've been googling a while looking for information about custom Finder
icons, to see if they might be settable with a script. The current Finder
dictionary is explicit that the icon family class is NOT AVAILABLE YET,
but I was wondering if there was a workaround perhaps involving the
Satimage OSAX for resource tweaking, or should I just be patient
Well ok, this is easier than the background-picture thing because
custom icons have been documented for ages. :-)
Questions:
1. Do you need to construct icons on the fly, or copy from an existing file?
2. Are these for folders or files?
Custom icons are stored in resource ID -16455.
If for a folder, an invisible file named ("Icon" & return) [in AS
parlance] is placed in the folder, and the folder has its custom icon
metadata bit set (but the invisible file does not).
If for a file, the file has its custom icon metadata bit set.
You can use /Developer/Tools/SetFile to set file/folder metadata.
-boo
who used File Buddy 7 to doublecheck the metadata for folders
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