harrow@exodus.DEC (Jeff Harrow, NCSE LKG1-3/F16 DTN=226-7445) (02/04/86)
I left one question out of my recent posting regarding the excellent Fade To Black DA: When the screen is "black", it lets you know it's alive by randomly moving the current application's icon around on the screen. HOWEVER, when its the FINDER that's running, it just moves a blank square. Wouldn't it be more appropriate to move the Finder's icon (the "System Mac)? Jeff
blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews) (02/07/86)
|When the screen is "black", it lets you know it's alive by |randomly moving the current application's icon around on the |screen. HOWEVER, when its the FINDER that's running, it just |moves a blank square. | |Wouldn't it be more appropriate to move the Finder's icon (the |"System Mac)? Probably, but all I do to get the applications icon is to set the current resource file to the current applications resource id, and get ICN# 128. This is the "standard" ICN# for applications, so it works in most cases, with the notable exception of, you guessed it, the Finder. The Finder isn't and application (try double clicking it), so it doesn't have an ICN#. It's icon is actually ICN# 3 (I think) in the system file. I could probably look for ICN# 3 if there is no 128, but then Apple could make the Finder a normal application too (which I've done, so all my Finders have proper ICN#'s, and are double clickable). I'll probably do that for the next version of Fade, when I get time to work on it. -- Brian L. Matthews ...{ihnp4!utzoo!mnetor,uw-beaver!ssc-vax}!cxsea!cxsea2!arrakis!blm