Re: Adding an icon to an application folder
Re: Adding an icon to an application folder
- Subject: Re: Adding an icon to an application folder
- From: Robert Fischer <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:56:57 +0200
On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 09:43 AM, Cidric John wrote:
Hi! I'm sorry if I am a bit off topic here.
I'm a cocoa developer that would like to add a customized icon to its
application folder (not to the application itself, this I know how to
do). After searching for about an hour on Apple's web site, I gave up:
don't know how to do it! I have created a ".psd" icon for my folder
using Apple's icon kit. But then I don't know how to properly set it
in my folder. I've tried to "copy-paste" the thumb icon in the finder
info windows, but this leaves an ugly white background. Does anyone
know how to properly set an icon to a folder either using an ".icns"
or ".psd" file? Thanks in advance!
.psd is PhotoShop, isn't it? The Finder will not accept this kind of
images, AFAIK. Please use one of several icon tools. My suggestion is
FolderIcon for composing icons from existing images.
The "ugly white background" comes from the missing transparency mask.
You'll have to paste in a image with transparent border, i.e. tiff with
alpha channel or gif with transparent color.
R.
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