Re: Vector Graphic Dock Icon?
Re: Vector Graphic Dock Icon?
- Subject: Re: Vector Graphic Dock Icon?
- From: "Eric E. Dolecki" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 14:45:13 -0400
I don't want to hijack this thread, but is it acceptable to use small PDF
files for things like game assets, or does vector artwork bog the processor
down and bitmaps are preferred?
On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Clark Cox <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Chris Idou <email@hidden> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to use a vector graphic as a dock icon?
>
> That depends. For a running application, you can set the application
> image to anything that NSImage supports. For the icon when your app
> isn't running, it needs to be a *.icns file. Fortunately, that format
> supports multiple size representations of the icon in a single file
> (essentially a MIP map), so, despite being a bitmap format, the sizes
> can be tuned for specific sizes (512x512, 256x256, 128x128, 32x32 and
> 16x16).
>
> > The Apple doco seems to encourage using vector graphics, but I can't find
> it documented what format it would expect. I tried a PDF but that didn't
> seem to work.
>
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