Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!ginosko!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!uwvax!rang From: rang@cs.wisc.edu (Anton Rang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Custom Icons Message-ID: Date: 13 Sep 89 13:57:19 GMT References: <15541@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1373@speedy.mcnc.org> Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu Distribution: comp Organization: UW-Madison CS department Lines: 20 In-reply-to: kk@mcnc.org's message of 13 Sep 89 12:22:33 GMT In article <1373@speedy.mcnc.org> kk@mcnc.org (Krzysztof Kozminski) writes: [ lots of ideas about how to force icons to be changed in the Desktop ] Hmm. I thought this was common knowledge, but maybe not. Doesn't it always work to do the following? 1. Update the ICN# resource in the application. 2. Make sure the Bundle bit is set. 3. Turn off the Inited bit. <-- the important part At least with System 3.X through 6.0.3, this has always worked for me. I don't use MultiFinder much when I'm programming, though (not enough memory). Does anybody else do this? Does it ever fail? (As far as I can tell, turning off "Inited" tells the Finder it's a file that hasn't been processed yet, so the desktop gets updated.) +----------------------------------+------------------+ | Anton Rang (grad student) | "VMS Forever!" | | University of Wisconsin--Madison | rang@cs.wisc.edu | +----------------------------------+------------------+