Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!well!oster From: oster@well.sf.ca.us (David Phillip Oster) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Color icons Message-ID: <19228@well.sf.ca.us> Date: 25 Jul 90 02:47:17 GMT References: Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Lines: 16 In article jjoshua@topaz.rutgers.edu (Jon Joshua) writes: >I just created a color icon 'cicn'. It has the same number as my icon >in the ICN#. The only problem is that it only displays in B&W. I >have rebuilt the desktop. What's the magic command to make it work. The trick of giving a cicn the same number as an ICON works only if YOUR program plots the icon with a system routine, such as an iconItem in a dialog. If you want a color icon for your program in the Finder, you'll either need to use somebody's nonstandard INIT, or your'll need to wait for System 7, and use not a cicn, but a different data structure, with a different resoure type, that is teh data part of a color icon, and assumes Apple's standard 16-color color table, in that order. -- -- David Phillip Oster - Note new signature. Old one has gone Bye Bye. -- oster@well.sf.ca.us = {backbone}!well!oster