Re: Newbie: app cursors and icons
Re: Newbie: app cursors and icons
- Subject: Re: Newbie: app cursors and icons
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:25:25 +0200
On Sunday, October 13, 2002, at 01:25 , Mark Woollard wrote:
I've got my first app pretty much together but need to sort it out an
application icon and need a custom busy cursor. I can't figure out how to
change the default NSApplicationIcon in my MainMenu.nib. What is the
procedure for this
First, you have to know it has nothing to do with MainMenu (or any other)
NIB. You just add an icns file to the app's resources, and set its name in
the Application setting in the target as the app icon.
and what icon editors are people using?
There's no bitmap editor at all in Mac OS X, which is a big shame. Ask
Apple why they trashed the IconBuilder! :(((
So, you have to prepare the TIFF yourself, best results with 128x128 alpha
image. Then make downsized versions for 48x48, 32x32 and 16x16 -- eg.
ToyViewer can do that quite decently, or you of course might want to
hand-tune them. Finally, use IconComposer to stitch them all into one icns
file.
I have figured out what needs to be done using NSCursor to implement the
necessary onscreen changes but not how to create an image and get it into
the resources.
Just add the TIFF via the PB's Add Files command (the same for the icns).
---
Ondra Cada
OCSoftware: email@hidden
http://www.ocs.cz
private email@hidden
http://www.ocs.cz/oc
_______________________________________________
cocoa-dev mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives:
http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/cocoa-dev
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.