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From: PFTERRY@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: ICN# <--> ICON
Message-ID: <18695@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 25 Nov 89 03:55:49 GMT
References: <13500005@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu> <17246@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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In article <17246@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>, earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) writes:
> In article <13500005@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu> resgroup@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu writes:
>>
>>Could anyone tell me how to change an ICON into an ICN# and change it back?
>>
> 
> Using ResEdit, open the resource with "Open General."  This gets you
> access to the hex data of the ICON or ICN#.  Cut, Copy, and Paste the
> hex data to move the image back and forth between the resource types.
> The ICN# resource is actually twice as large as the ICON resource,
> because it incorporates a mask.  This means that if you convert an
> ICON into an ICN# this way, you will have to open up the ICN# using
> the graphical ICN# editor, and define a mask for it, no big deal.


If you don't want to fire up ResEdit, you could also use ClipBoard Magician. 
You can get it ftp from Sumex.

Fred Terry
Univ. of KS