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Re: future proof icon sizes?
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Re: future proof icon sizes?


  • Subject: Re: future proof icon sizes?
  • From: Daniel Jalkut <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:59:56 -0400

I use ".icns" in my toolbar and, I don't have the sharpest eye, but I just assume it's using the closest size the same as the application icon does. Indeed, when I inspect the image I set on the toolbar item at runtime, it has multiple representations as expected.

Daniel

On Jun 17, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Ricky Sharp wrote:


Also for application icons multiple images are included so that the icon can be made to look better when scaled small. Is there a similar feature for toolbar icons, so that toolbar icons can be made to look sharper when viewed with "Use Small Size" checked?

I'd file a feature enhancement. Perhaps the toolbar icons, NSCursor, etc. could be made to work with multiple-resolution files (e.g. TIFF) and do the right thing.


Note however, that you should be able to use vector-based images which will scale nicely at all scaling factors. If you have to stick with bitmapped content, perhaps supply different flavors. This is what I currently do with images I feed to NSCursor. 72dpi flavors are used for scaling factors <= 1.0 and a 216dpi one is used for factors > 1.0.

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