Custom document icons
Custom document icons
- Subject: Custom document icons
- From: "Chris McFarling" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:44:06 -0500
I'm not a Mac programmer but have a couple questions that I think requires OS X programming knowledge.
When an app creates/saves a document, the document can have a custom icon assigned to it. From what I gather there are a couple ways to associate the custom icon with the document type. One is the old fashioned way that utilizes a resource fork and the other uses newer OS X specific techniques. If a resource fork is not used, do type/creator codes still need to be present for OS X to utilize a custom document icon?
Photoshop (and maybe other graphics apps) is unique in that it can save a thumbnail representation of the image as the document icon. This means that every document can have a unique icon. Currently, even with the latest versions of Photoshop (haven't tried CS3 yet though) & OS X, a resource fork is still being used to accomplish this type of custom icon. Is there any other way that this can be done without using a resource fork, currently or in the future? Does Adobe plan on using resource forks for the forseeable future? Will OSX support resource forks for the forseeable future?
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