u-sgreen%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Scott Greenman) (08/09/90)
I am designing an Application in IB, and I set the Application Icon in the Project inspector. The icon shows up on the inspector, but I can't get it to show up as the application Icon when I make the application. I tried moving it to my Apps directory and selecting Utilities/Find Applications from the Workspace menu, but it still gave me the generic application icon. What am I doing wrong? Scott Greenman Univ of Utah Coll of Nursing
u-sgreen%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Scott Greenman) (08/09/90)
Thanks to all those who answered my question, which was essentially this: I set the application icon in IB, but I still get a generic icon on the app, even after I put it in my Apps dir and do Find Application. The problem appears to be that the icon was saved without the alpha channel. I resaved it with alpha, and it worked okay. So in summary, your icon must be: - 48 x 48 pixels - saved WITH alpha - If the above two are correct, the TIFF file will be 1292 bytes. Now, for another question. My Application icon works, but the savefile icon doesn't. Now, since my application is not fully operational yet, it doesn't make savefiles. I am under the impression, though that if I rename any file with the correct extension, it should have the save file icon. I tried with a Edit file, but it shows up with the Generic Document icon. I checked the save file icon, and it is saved with alpha. Any ideas on this? Scott Greenman Univ of Utah
combs@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Dave Combs) (08/09/90)
Scott Greenman (u-sgreen%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu) writes >I am designing an Application in IB, and I set the Application Icon in the >Project inspector. The icon shows up on the inspector, but I can't get it >to show up as the application Icon when I make the application. I tried >moving it to my Apps directory and selecting Utilities/Find Applications from >the Workspace menu, but it still gave me the generic application icon. What >am I doing wrong? Does the application icon have alpha? I had saved a non-alpha icon for an application icon of mine, and it refused to show it to me until I saved it with alpha. Until I did, I always got the generic application icon. Anyone else have this behavior? Cheers, Dave (combs@sumex-aim.stanford.edu)
dcarpent@sjuphil.uucp (D. Carpenter) (08/09/90)
In article <1990Aug8.184457.20145@hellgate.utah.edu> u-sgreen%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Scott Greenman) writes: >I am designing an Application in IB, and I set the Application Icon in the >Project inspector. The icon shows up on the inspector, but I can't get it >to show up as the application Icon when I make the application. I tried >moving it to my Apps directory and selecting Utilities/Find Applications from >the Workspace menu, but it still gave me the generic application icon. What >am I doing wrong? I've had this same problem ever since I began using IB. At first I thought I must be doing something wrong. But then I showed the problem to a technical rep from NeXT and after several attempts even HE was unable to get an application icon on my machine. When he moved the entire IB project to his machine and tried it, it worked. He was unable to determine what the problem was on my machine, and I'm still stuck with it. One suggestion was that my icon might exceed the 48 X 48 maximum size for application icons. But the problem persists even with icons well under 48 X 48. When I download applications off the archives, put them in my Apps directory and do the Find Applications, I get the application icon without any problem. There is only a problem with apps that I have created in IB on my own machine. I'm running the original 1.0 OS, but if this were a bug I would have expected a whole chorus of complaints by now. Does anyone have any idea of what's going on here? > >Scott Greenman >Univ of Utah >Coll of Nursing -- =============================================================== David Carpenter dcarpent@sjuphil.UUCP St. Joseph's University dcarpent@sjuphil.sju.edu Philadelphia, PA 19131
engstrom@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Eric D. Engstrom) (08/10/90)
In article <1990Aug8.184457.20145@hellgate.utah.edu> u-sgreen%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Scott Greenman) writes: > I am designing an Application in IB, and I set the Application Icon in the > Project inspector. The icon shows up on the inspector, but I can't get it > to show up as the application Icon when I make the application. I tried > moving it to my Apps directory and selecting Utilities/Find Applications from > the Workspace menu, but it still gave me the generic application icon. What > am I doing wrong? > Your attempt is close, but you don't MOVE the application into your ~/apps directory, you must install it. To do this, change (if needed) the install directory in IB (under project inspctr) to be the directory you wish. Then, from a shell in your project directory, issue the following command: make -install Then do a Find Applications from the Utilities menu. The app in the directory you specified should now have the icon set. As I don't regularly work on NeXTs anymore (but wish I did), I don't promise that all the info is completely accurate, but the general solution is! ,---------------------------------------------------+---------------------. | Eric D. Engstrom, Research Scientist | [Profanity is the | | Internet: engstrom@src.honeywell.com | one language all | | UUCP: {umn-cs,ems,bthpyd}!srcsip!engstrom | programmers know | | USnail: Honeywell Systems and Research Center | best!] - ? | | 3660 Technology Drive ,-------+---------------------| | Minneapolis, MN 55418 | Disclaimer: | | Phone: (612) 782-7318 | Mine! MINE! ALL MINE!!! | `-------------------------------------------+-----------------------------' ,---------------------------------------------------+---------------------. | Eric D. Engstrom, Research Scientist | [Profanity is the | | Internet: engstrom@src.honeywell.com | one language all | | UUCP: {umn-cs,ems,bthpyd}!srcsip!engstrom | programmers know | | USnail: Honeywell Systems and Research Center | best!] - ? | | 3660 Technology Drive ,-------+---------------------| | Minneapolis, MN 55418 | Disclaimer: | | Phone: (612) 782-7318 | Mine! MINE! ALL MINE!!! |
wjs@milton.u.washington.edu (William Shipley) (08/10/90)
>I am designing an Application in IB, and I set the Application Icon in the >Project inspector. The icon shows up on the inspector, but I can't get it >to show up as the application Icon when I make the application. I've had this problem as well, with News. I eventually solved it by deleting my .iconheader, and makefile, and then specifically having IB make me new ones (through the project panel). I have no idea if this is a general solution, or even if this is what solved it, but it seemed to work for me. -wil
whelan@donald.wslab.Hawaii.Edu (Jerry Whelan) (08/10/90)
In article <1990Aug9.161335.17946@sjuphil.uucp> dcarpent@sjuphil.UUCP (D. Carpenter) writes: =>In article <1990Aug8.184457.20145@hellgate.utah.edu> u-sgreen%peruvian.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Scott Greenman) writes: =>>I am designing an Application in IB, and I set the Application Icon in the =>>Project inspector. The icon shows up on the inspector, but I can't get it =>>to show up as the application Icon when I make the application. I tried =>>moving it to my Apps directory and selecting Utilities/Find Applications from =>>the Workspace menu, but it still gave me the generic application icon. What =>>am I doing wrong? => =>When I download applications off the archives, put them in my Apps =>directory and do the Find Applications, I get the application icon =>without any problem. I think the same problem has occurred to me when ftping applications that are single files and have only been compressed (i.e. are _not_ .tar files). I specifically remember it occuring when I checked out Altdock 1.0 and Altdock 2.0 from j.cc.purdue.edu. The problem seemed to spontaneously go away within a week of installing the applications (i.e., one day I logged in and the correct icon showed up in the browser). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- whelan@ (uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu || uhccux.BITNET || nextsrv.uhcc.hawaii.edu)
IO92080@MAINE.BITNET (Steven A. Nickerson) (08/10/90)
Yes, I got the same behavior, and thanks to Scott Hess I found out why my icon would not show up. I don't know why that is the case, maybe Scott can enlighten us on what exactly ALPHA means and why it is important to icons (or maybe someone besides Scott can!). S.A. Nickerson
cerberus@caen.engin.umich.edu (R Eric Bennett) (08/10/90)
Question: Does the App have to be in the Apps directory and do I have to do a find Applications from the Workspace Manager? Question 2: Somebody said something about make -install. What does this do? Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- cerberus@itl.itd.umich.edu (NeXT mail) "Put a stamp on it." cerberus@caen.engin.umich.edu -Fab 5 Freddy -------------------------------------------------------------------------------