DN5@PSUVM.BITNET (01/13/89)
Hi,
I was poking about the the finder trying to find out how the finder puts
up those real small icons when you look into a window by doing a view by name,
and found that the symbols to the left of the name (showing folder/app/
document) are of resource type SICN (listed in IM 5 as Script Symbol).
Unfortunately, the only reference I could find to SICN in IM 5 was that
a resource of this type is reserved, but what it was was never explained.
Does anybody out there know what it is and how to access it?
Thanks,
Jay, etc...bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (01/14/89)
A SICN is a small icon. I wrote a SICN editor once, if anybody needs one. Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu rhesus!dubois bin@primate.wisc.edu rhesus!bin
leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (01/16/89)
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Hi,
I was poking about the the finder trying to find out how the finder puts
up those real small icons when you look into a window by doing a view by name,
and found that the symbols to the left of the name (showing folder/app/
document) are of resource type SICN (listed in IM 5 as Script Symbol).
Unfortunately, the only reference I could find to SICN in IM 5 was that
a resource of this type is reserved, but what it was was never explained.
Does anybody out there know what it is and how to access it?
Thanks,
Jay, etc...
/* End of text from uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac.programmer */leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (01/17/89)
DN5@PSUVM.BITNET(Jay, etc) writes in comp.sys.mac.programmer First of all let me apologize for the previous message which went out without the changes due to a system crash. Anyway, here is the answer.. >I was poking about the the finder trying to find out how the finder puts >up those real small icons when you look into a window by doing a view by name, >and found that the symbols to the left of the name (showing folder/app/ >document) are of resource type SICN (listed in IM 5 as Script Symbol). >Unfortunately, the only reference I could find to SICN in IM 5 was that >a resource of this type is reserved, but what it was was never explained. > >Does anybody out there know what it is and how to access it? As Paul pints out a SICN is a Small ICoN. It's structure is simply a 16x16 bit image. You can access it by simply doing a GetResource on it, and blockmoving the data into the baseAddr of a BitMap and then copybitzing it onto the screen. The SICN is used in two places that I know of - 1) The Notification Manager uses the SICN as the thing to blink over the Apple and 2) The Script Manager puts up a SICN representing the current Script System in the upper right. +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ + + Any thing I say may be taken as + + Leonard Rosenthol + fact, then again you might decide+ + President, LazerWare, inc. + that it really isn't, so you + + + never know, do you?? + + leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu + + + GEnie: MACgician + MacNET: MACgician + + Delphi: MACgician + AppleLink: D0025 + + + + +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral) (01/17/89)
From article <226000050@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, by leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu: > The SICN is used in two places that I know of - 1) The Notification > Manager uses the SICN as the thing to blink over the Apple and 2) The > Script Manager puts up a SICN representing the current Script System in > the upper right. 3) Diskinfo DA uses them. 4) They're used in the Blob Manager Demo. How could anyone forget that! :-) (Their use in 4 is actually the reason I wrote SicnEdit, so I could create them easily. They're used within SicnEdit itself, of course.) Paul DuBois dubois@primate.wisc.edu rhesus!dubois bin@primate.wisc.edu rhesus!bin
kent@lloyd.camex.uucp (Kent Borg) (01/18/89)
In article <226000050@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >The SICN is used in two places that I know of - 1) The Notification Manager >uses the SICN as the thing to blink over the Apple and 2) The Script Manager >puts up a SICN representing the current Script System in the upper right. It seems reasonable that MultiFinder might be willing to use a SICN resource on the menu bar instead of making one up on the fly. Also seems that Finder might spot the same SICN resource to use for displaying `by Small Icon'. Anybody done any playing along these lines? Heard anything? Has the Finder's bundle info had this added? Kent Borg kent@lloyd.uucp or hscfvax!lloyd!kent