Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!kk From: kk@mcnc.org (Krzysztof Kozminski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Custom Icons Message-ID: <1373@speedy.mcnc.org> Date: 13 Sep 89 12:22:33 GMT References: <15541@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> Reply-To: kk@mcnc.org.UUCP (Krzysztof Kozminski) Distribution: comp Organization: Microelectronics Center of NC; RTP, NC Lines: 29 In article <15541@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes: >In article gary@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu > (Gary Levin) writes: >>I am trying to create a custom icon for my application. I have >>created the ICN#, FREF, BNDL with ResEdit and the new icon comes up >>fine. Now I find that I need to edit the new icon... > >This is one of the classic Macintosh programming gotchas! The most >straightforward, brute force approach to this problem is to delete the >Desktop file on the disk where the application resides, and then let >the Finder build a new one. I'm not sure if this is that great idea, especially on hard disks - sloooow, and I lost once a disk when doing a desktop rebuild from Finder with option-command combination (or is it normal for Finder to take >2 hrs to rebuild the desktop on HD-20 :-?). The simplest solution to Gary's problem that I know of is to: - copy your application to another disk - copy it back If I remember correctly, Finder updates the Desktop file whenever you copy applications. Perhaps even option-drag-to-another-folder will do the job. KK -- Kris Kozminski kk@mcnc.org "The party was a masquerade; the guests were all wearing their faces."