es1o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Mitchell Snider) (04/17/88)
Can someone please explain in detail how to create icons for applications? I can change existing icons (Like the garbagecan etc.) but I want to make my own Icon for a program I wrote. I've been trying lots of things with ResEdit but I just can't get it to work.... Eric
rajiv@orange.cis.ohio-state.edu (Rajiv Agrawal) (04/19/88)
In article <kWO3qqy00VsEUJI09m@andrew.cmu.edu> es1o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Mitchell Snider) writes: > >Can someone please explain in detail how to create icons for >applications? I can change existing icons (Like the garbagecan etc.) >but I want to make my own Icon for a program I wrote. I've been >trying lots of things with ResEdit but I just can't get it to >work.... > > > Eric Here is the complete way to make icons. Someone told me this sometime back since I ran into the same problem: 1. Copy BNDL, FREF, ICN# resources from some place. I copied it from MacsBug. I am sure Finder will do. 2. Change the owner on BNDL resource. Give it the name, say, eric. 3. Create a signature resource and call it eric. Give this resource an id=0. 4. Close all the resources and do a Get Info on your application and change the owner to eric. Save the changes and get out of ResEdit. If you don't see your icon, then try rebuilding the desktop. (Since I am pretty new to Mac programming, some "gurus" can correct me.) Rajiv Agrawal. -=- -------------------------------------------------------------------- 206 W 18th Ave INTERBIT: rajiv@orange.cis.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210 agrawal-r@eng.ohio-state.edu (614) 292-9029 BITNET: ts5600@ohstvma DECnet: 6177::agrawal
mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu) (04/19/88)
In article <kWO3qqy00VsEUJI09m@andrew.cmu.edu>, es1o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Mitchell Snider) writes: > > Can someone please explain in detail how to create icons for > applications? I can change existing icons (Like the garbagecan etc.) > but I want to make my own Icon for a program I wrote. I've been > trying lots of things with ResEdit but I just can't get it to > work.... > In ResEdit, if you select NEW under the File menu, and specify ICN#, you'll be given a template for an icon, and you can make it just as you changed other icons. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dean Yu | mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu | This space intentionally left blank. I'm too young to have an opinion | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------