Re: custom icon for application bundle
Re: custom icon for application bundle
- Subject: Re: custom icon for application bundle
- From: Carlos Ysunza <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 22:38:55 -0500
- Thread-topic: custom icon for application bundle
Luther,
I have some application bundle of my own with it's custom icon working
around in many different Mac's and the way I put my custom icos is very easy
1.- I create my custom icon in Photoshop well to be honest my in house
designer, my wife : )
2.- Then I drop this file into a new document of the application" Icon
Composer" you'll found it into the Utilities folder of Applications foder
of the Developers folder, assuming that you have installed the Developers
stuff in your Mac, if not, just install it
3.- In that application you'll drop the biggest picture into the smaller
squares in order to create the appropriate masks, name it & save it
4.- You already have your application bundle so open the package and
substitute the file "applet.icns"
5.- close and re-launch the Finder
It most works at least works to me all the time
I hope help in any way
Carlos Ysunza B.
Director
Ysunza/Santiago
Visual Communication Automation
Tel. (52)55 5256-0336
email@hidden
http://www.ysunzasantiago.com
http://www.thesecretmexico.com
http://www.softrobot.com.mx
> From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 08:17:28 -0500
> To: Applescript Users <email@hidden>
> Subject: Re: custom icon for application bundle
>
> Donald Hall asked ...
>> I have a script saved as an application bundle that I want to give
>> a custom icon. I replaced 'applet.icns' with my custom icon in
>> Resources in the package contents, and changed the CFBundleIconFile
>> in the plist file to the name of the custom icon file (without the
>> icns extension). When I relaunched the Finder I got the generic
>> application icon instead. When I renamed the custom icns file to
>> 'applet.icns', I did get my custom icon. If I copy and paste my
>> custom icon into the Get Info window for the application bundle, it
>> is saved in the resource fork of the package and does show in the
>> Finder.
>>
>> Can anyone explain why my custom icon doesn't show up in the Finder
>> unless I rename it to 'applet.icns' despite having changed the
>> plist? I know I can just use the resource fork way of doing things,
>> but I would prefer to avoid this and use the bundle concept.
>
> I ran into this and other problems with application bundles in Jan 05
> and found that doing it right was so onerously tedious that I wrote
> Script Bundle Tool. Your icon won't show in the Finder until a number
> of files in your bundle are renamed correctly and you then make a
> copy of the bundle. The document for Script Bundle Tool explains this
> and other problems beginning on page 4.
>
> http://scriptbuilders.net/files/scriptbundletool4.0.4.html
>
>
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