Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!dlyons
From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: System Disk 5.0 Finder Trash Can
Message-ID: <34497@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Sep 89 22:42:20 GMT
References: <21294.24FCBFAE@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <21294.24FCBFAE@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG> lwv@cmhgate.FIDONET.ORG (Larry Virden) writes:
>There are a number of pecularities with icons, which I believe are
>intensified under 5.0.  Would someone address the subject of icons for us
>and indicate what is and is not permitted to be done now?  And is there
>a simple tool which , given a file of icons, would attempt to print out
>for the user a list of what is 'in' the icon (other than the graphic
>of course)...

You can edit the appearance of icons provided with the system, but you
should not add icons to or remove icons from the system-provided files
(Finder.Icons and Finder.Icons.x).  You can add your own icons in
separate files.  You shouldn't create "duplicates" of any special icons
in the system files--for example, if you want your own trash-can icon,
edit the one in Finder.Icons rather than adding your own.

I don't know of a program that will print out an icon file.  Eventually
I'll add printing to DIcEd, but I haven't done it yet.  I'll probably
also add some logic to warn you when you're doing something you're
not supposed to do (like having a "match-everything" icon anywhere but
at the very end of Finder.Icons).




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