folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) (05/19/91)
Someone talked about getting small icons in ResEdit and pasting them into a file's Get Info Box. It only seems to work when you copy from the Icon Family Edit window. This is because copying in this window copies as a PICT, which is what the Get Info wants. Copying the icon resource is a different thing. Also, I poked around and found that TeachText is High-level Event Aware. That gives you at least one program to manipulate when QuickKeys comes out with its upgrade that does Events. Last, I have had several ResEdit 2.1 bombs when cutting and pasting ICN#s. Especially when dragging an ICN# to an ics# in the Icon Family Edit window. The bombs don't happen when dragging icl8 to ics8, for example. Boy is ResEdit 2.1 nice! Who needs to buy games when you can take ResEdit and poke around your system? -- Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)
dth@reef.cis.ufl.edu (David Hightower) (05/21/91)
In article <34651@mimsy.umd.edu> folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes: >Someone talked about getting small icons in ResEdit and pasting them into a >file's Get Info Box. It only seems to work when you copy from the Icon Family >Edit window. This is because copying in this window copies as a PICT, which is > >Last, I have had several ResEdit 2.1 bombs when cutting and pasting ICN#s. >Especially when dragging an ICN# to an ics# in the Icon Family Edit window. It seems that everybody is using ResEdit to change their icons around. Hmm....maybe I'm doing things by the "kludge" method, but I've modified all my folder icons, without using ResEdit. Here's how: I open the "get info" window of the folder I'd like to modify. I "copy" the icon of the folder onto the clipboard. I open DESKPAINT from my apple items menu, and paste the folder icon. I switch back to the desktop, go into the folder, select the main application in that folder (for example, Excel 3.0), get info on it, and copy the icon. I then switch back to DESKPAINT, paste the new icon, scale by percent to ~60%, and then using the marquee I move the icon onto the folder icon. I then color, edit, change whatever I want, and then select the new image with the Marquee. Copy the new icon, go back to the desktop, and paste the icon into the icon space for the folder. Am I doing things the hard way, or the easy way? It takes about 2 minutes to do all the copying, editing, and pasting, and I never have to muck about with ResEdit. Dave _________________________________________________________________________ Dave Hightower | opinion? I'm allowed to have an opinion? dth@cis.ufl.edu | well, if I DID have one, it'd be mine, all mine! --------------------------------------------------------------------------
edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) (05/21/91)
The fmap resource 17017 in the Finder contains: TEXTttxt PICTttxt This is where the Finder looks to see how to open documents with unknown owners. You can add your own, too. For example, you can tell it to open Microsoft Word documents with MacWrite II (or vice versa). Any guesses about the other fmap resources? -- Gerald A. Edgar Internet: edgar@mps.ohio-state.edu Department of Mathematics Bitnet: EDGAR@OHSTPY The Ohio State University telephone: 614-292-0395 (Office) Columbus, OH 43210 -292-4975 (Math. Dept.) -292-1479 (Dept. Fax)