Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: gary@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu (Gary Levin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Custom Icons Message-ID: Date: 13 Sep 89 18:39:35 GMT References: Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 31 In-reply-to: gary@sun.mcs.clarkson.edu's message of Tue, 12 Sep 89 20:07:57 GMT Thanks to all who responded to my request. In article (Gary Levin) writes: gary>I am trying to create a custom icon for my application. I have gary>created the ICN#, FREF, BNDL with ResEdit and the new icon comes up gary>fine. Now I find that I need to edit the new icon. I can change it gary>with ResEdit, but nothing I seem to do will persuade the desktop to gary>use the new representation. I've even used ResEdit to look at the gary>application, and it has the new icon in it. The suggestions were: (1) Copy to a blank disk. (2) Move to another folder. (3) Get info for file (in ResEdit) and set Bundle, unset Inited. (4) Modify the desktop file. (5) Rebuild the desktop with option-clover Restart. Only (5) worked. One person warned against this, but I tried it anyway. On a 60 Meg partition, it only took 1.5 mins. It claims to have run out of memory in the finder, so perhaps some files lost their special image. I would have tried (4), except I have no idea where to find the desktop file, nor how to modify it. Again, thanks. -- Gary Levin/Dept of Math & CS/Clarkson Univ/Potsdam, NY 13676/(315) 268-2384 BitNet: gary@clutx Internet: gary@clutx.clarkson.edu