driskill%asylum.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Hank Driskill) (06/03/91)
In article <YEE.91Jun3165130@pmin27.osf.org> yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: >In article <1991Jun3.183114.22571@sequent.com> iceman@sequent.com (Ian Evans) writes: >> I have seen numerous postings regarding the 'new' color and grayscale >> icons that exist in the finder but don't appear. For instance, the new >> icons for floppy diskettes are not used. I get the 1 bit version, not >> the 8 bit. I have a Mac IIcx 8/40 and have installed 7.0 a few >> different ways with no luck. >> >> Would someone who KNOWS THE ANSWER to this please respond to this >> newsgroup?? Someone at Apple MUST know what's going on. > > Ditto! I have color icons under 6.0.7 (using IconColorizer), but > under 7.0 I'm back to b&w disk icons. BTW: Thanks to Apple for all > the neat features in System 7.0, and thanks to Mark Johnson for > putting System 7.0 on ftp.apple.com. > > A gazillion steps forward, one step back, > > =Mike Here's my attempt to answer this... anyone yell out if I mess up TOO badly :-) I was running 7.0b4 since March, and 7.0 release for a few weeks now... and I have all my color icons working: here's how I did it. Tools: ResEdit 2.1 (I bought it, but now it's at ftp.apple.com), patience. I was running Sundesk under 6.0.7, and also had some of the icon archives from ColorFinder, which uses 'cicn' resources instead of 'icl8' resources. When I got 7.0, I used the new ResEdit 'icon family editor' to fix up my apps for 7.0 (I had to have my color icons, after all...). 1) Start up ResEdit, open up your file with all your icons (Sundesk Strip file or whatever). 2) Open up each of your apps in turn. Double click on ICN#, then the icons you wish to have be color. 3) If you have color icons in another file (from step 1), then open up the color icon in your other file, and double click on the marquee tool (dashed lines). This highlights the whole icon... then just hit command-c to copy. 4) Go back to your app... click on the 'icl8' box on the right side of your 'icon family editor'. Hit command-v, and you have a color icon pasted in! 5) To get the rest of the family quickly, go over to the actual-size pix of the icons in the family editor. Use the ICN# to create the ICS#, and the icl8 to create the rest: click on the first, drag to the others right there on the side. Use the icl8 to make the masks too... it has colors where the icl4 or icn# might be hollow, usually. 6) Repeat 2 through 5... if you don't have a color icon for a particular ICN#, just drag the ICN# picture to the icl8 box in the family editor, and color it. Then do step 5 to get the whole family. (Most of this I learned from the ResEdit Companion, BTW). Now, to get color disk icons: this is a pain, especially if you want ALL your floppies to be color! Here's how to get a disk to be color, though... HD or floppy. 1) Paste an icon into the "Get Info" box. It doesn't have to be the one you want to actually have. What this does is create an invisible file on that disk named "Icon"... ResEdit can see it. To do this, just choose "Get Info", then choose the icon picture in the upper left of the window. A box will show up, and just paste. You can get an icon picture by doing the "double click marquee" trick in ResEdit... 2) fire up ResEdit, and open "Icon". Open up the icon family editor on the icon in the ICN# resource for "Icon", then repeat steps 3-5 from above to create a whole family of icons for your disk. When you're all done, reboot and rebuild the desktop by holding down command and option (I think, I know which keys but I'm not on my mac to see) while booting up. When it's done, you should have all your color icons, including disks! Hank Driskill Grad Student from Hell (in 3D)