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From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: NeXT icon on Dock
Summary: mutilation of bloated defenseless apps
Message-ID: <10723@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 90 06:58:08 GMT
References: <5978@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <5978@mace.cc.purdue.edu> asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth) writes:
>Does anybody know if it's possible/how to change the little NeXT cube
>icon on the workspace icon?  I would love to put a different image
>there and make my machine look "Oh So Neat!" :)  Sure, it's stupid,
>it's pointless, but hey, so is the Mac discussion.  No really, I would
>like to know how to go about this.

  Check out the "narcissus" application on the archives. It's supposed to
put your face in the icon window but you can specify an arbitrary .TIFF
file if you want it.

>On a related note, is there any program out there that can do
>'resource editing' or in other words, 'nib file editing'?  It would be
>great to be able to do what the Mac does with resources, and edit the
>nib part of a application, and tailor an application to ones needs, or
>desires.  Anybody working on one?

   Hmmm... Well, given the really interesting format of Mach-Object files,
you can actually dump .NIBs (and .SNDs, and .TIFFs, and .RTFs, and 
.PSs ...) right out of an application. You can also replace existing
.NIBs (and stuff) wiuth your own files. Launch IB in the interim and you
have your resource editor.
   Only problem is that the program that does this segment editing appears in
the man files but not in the binaries directories. Dunno if it was supposed
to be released or not but I've never seen an executeable. I've written
a quick hack (in three of thr four senses of the phrase, blech) that dumps
things; I use it to snoop through any applications that have interesting
soundfiles or pictures or nibs or just to satisfy my curiosity =8)
Couldn't be that hard to write something to replace or load things,
though it would take a little fiddling with offsets. I haven't looked at
it too hard. In any case, it wouldn't be too hard to write. (And if the
missing binary was just a fluke, it wouldn't even require any coding =8) )


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