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: alex <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:36:21 -0700
Why don't you use TIFFTuner?
From my experience it's made for just that. It integrates nicely into
any workflow. You simply launch it, run PhotoShop, copy into the
clipboard what you want to have as an icon, and then switch to
TIFFTuner, say new, and paste. It'll let you change various setting to
determine level of translucency, add alpha-channels, exporting, and
also exporting as icns file.
It's easy to "learn" and intuitive to use, cheap, efficient, and has
never crashed once so far for me. I can't state anything on
documentation, I never needed one.
You can download it from <
http://www.versiontracker.com>
Alex
On Tuesday, April 29, 2003, at 06:56 AM, Robert Fischer wrote:
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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