Re: How do you change the Application Icon in Interface Builder?
Re: How do you change the Application Icon in Interface Builder?
- Subject: Re: How do you change the Application Icon in Interface Builder?
- From: Todd Heberlein <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:45:01 -0700
As John said, you need to use the application IconComposer which should
be in your /Developers/Applications folder. The three major Cocoa
programming books all seem to have at least a few pages on how to do
this: "Building Cocoa Applications, A Step-by-Step Guide", pp 205-213;
"Learning Cocoa", pp 315-318; and "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X", pp
131-133. For my money, the first book has the most detail on the
process.
IconComposer prefers that the image be saved in several resolutions
(i.e., 48x48, 32x32, ...). I *think* this is for makes for better
presentation in multiple sizes (MacOS X is pretty flexible when
presenting icon sizes). Fortunately, if you don't want to save your
image in each of these formats, I believe IconComposer will
automatically scale them for you.
I save my images as GIF files with transparency (developed in Deneba's
Canvas). IconComposer appears to handle these fine. I have had some
problems with TIFF files and transparencies.
Todd
On Thursday, June 13, 2002, at 08:12 AM, John Anderson wrote:
The icon image will typically need to be saved as a tiff so that you
have transparency... then use the iconComposer application (in
/Developer/Applications/) to create an .icns file for it. Then add the
.icns file to your project in ProjectBuilder and set it as your
application icon in the bundle settings page.
John Anderson
On Thursday, June 13, 2002, at 06:07 AM, William Lee Mapp III wrote:
Hello,
This is probably a very simple and stupid question, but I am new to Mac
development and Cocoa. I am using Interface Builder to build my
application's user interface. I see the standard application icon
provided
to me by the IB but when I double click on it I can not edit it. The
Info
window just pops up.
How do I change this icon to an icon I have designed, and what image
type is
it?
Or is it like Windows and a proprietary bitmap format?
Your assistance will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Will
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