[comp.sys.mac.misc] Where are drive bitmaps?????

ccastvf@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox - Mac Cluster Coordinator) (09/07/90)

Arrrghh. I'm losing my mind trying to find where they store the
bitmaps for the drives. I would have guessed the hardrive stuff
would have been in system, and the appleshare icons in appleshare.
I have explored virtually everything with resedit and am unable to
find this stuff. My original reason (admittedly trivial) was that we
run facade and icon colorizer. So some nifty color icons were created
to take the place of the regular boring ones (okay calvin and hobbes).
Problem is that no matter what we select as the default color from
the special menu at the desktop, it changes back to blue next boot.
Why does it have a preset color for appleshare device and how can I
change it is the particular question. Finding the bitmaps themselves
would be nice too.

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Greg@AppleLink.apple.com (Greg Marriott) (09/07/90)

The bitmaps are in the drivers (Sony driver, SCSI drivers, Appleshare 
drivers, etc.)  Finder makes a Control call to the driver to request its 
icon and location information.  This is the call I intercept in Facade to 
change the icons.

Greg Marriott
Apple Computer, Inc.

Chris.Gehlker@p12.f56.n114.z1.fidonet.org (Chris Gehlker) (09/09/90)

In message<13407@hydra.gatech.EDU> ccastvf@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox - 
MacCluster Coordinator) says:

> Arrrghh. I'm losing my mind trying to find where they store the
> bitmaps for the drives. I would have guessed the hardrive stuff
> would have been in system, and the appleshare icons in appleshare.

I thought I say the appleshare icons in Finder.  I know that the drive icons
are in the driver on the disk.  They aren't there as resources, they are 
embedded
in the code.

 

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das@Apple.COM (David Shayer) (09/11/90)

The Appleshare icons are stored on the fileserver, in the
Appleshare application.  They are transmitted over the network
to each user who logs on.  They are not stored in an ICON
resource, but in another resource type, something like GNRL.
It has some extra junk at the end of the resource.  Using 
Resedit, you can clip out the icon you want to replace it
with, and paste it over the appropriate number of bytes.
Then each person who logs on will get your new icon for
your server.  Sorry I can't be more specific, its been
more than a year since I customized the icons on our server.

David