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From: macman@wpi.WPI.EDU (Chris Silverberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Icons
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.022032.30221@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Date: 30 Oct 90 02:20:32 GMT
References: <Eb=7Deu00Vp90EHFBE@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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>The icon for a hard drive is not stored as a resource. Thus changing it isn't
>really something to be done by users. The easiest way to get another icon is
>to use Facade, a handy INIT which will let you give a different icon to each
>disk you have (provided the names are different.) You can FTP it from sumex
>or get it from one of the many file servers on campus.

I agree that Facade is definately the way to go, but there is an easy
solution without Facade, which is simply to modify the icon inside the
Hard Disk installer program, and simply update the driver, if the particular
program allows it. (most do).

- Chris


 
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