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Re: Custom icon for bundle?
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Re: Custom icon for bundle?


  • Subject: Re: Custom icon for bundle?
  • From: Ricky Sharp <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 06:35:37 -0500

On Friday, June 09, 2006, at 03:07AM, Jim Wintermyre <email@hidden> wrote:

>Maybe I'm being dense, but I can't seem to get a custom icon to
>appear for a bundle.  I've done this before for an application, which
>worked fine, but it seems that maybe there's something different
>about doing this for a bundle?  I have the .icns file in the project
>and it is copied correctly into the Resources folder of the output
>bundle.  The Info.plist file has a CFBundleIconFile entry with the
>name of the .icns file, and the CFBundleSignature is set to my
>creator code.  There is a PkgInfo file with the type and creator
>codes in it.  Basically it looks pretty much exactly like my
>application package, but no custom icon shows up.  Instead, I get the
>"standard" icon for bundles with my particular file extension (this
>is a plugin that can be loaded in different host apps, and the plugin
>SDK specifies that the bundle's filename must have a certain
>extension).  It seems as though something in the Launch Services
>database is overriding my specified icon, but I thought it should be
>the other way around.  I've logged out/restarted/etc and no change.
>Any ideas?

Hmm...I had thought I filed a bug about this a long while back (perhaps 2 years ago now).  But I don't see it listed in my open bug list on radar.

Anyhow, you may have just use a custom folder icon.  I had to do this for a contextual menu plugin.

--
Rick Sharp
Instant Interactive(tm)

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