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From: dwright@hmcvax.claremont.edu (Dan "(" Wright))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: SICNs in Apple Menu
Summary: Doesn't work w/Multifinder, System 7
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Date: 19 Jan 91 06:37:23 GMT
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In article <FRANCIS.91Jan18182651@math.uchicago.edu>, francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes...
> 
>Is there something unusual about the Apple Menu when it comes to
>putting SICNs (& ICONs) into it? I used ResEdit 2.1 to install them on
>my About... item; but all I get is the icon of a system file.  Is
>there a trick to it? Is it maybe not possible? I know I'm doing the
>basic step right, because it's appearing in another menu just fine.

Not possible.  This is documented, though it's not easy to find.  It is
mentioned in the new ResEdit Reference, for one.  The problem arises only under
Multifinder (apparently Multifinder mucks around with resources when the apple
menu is drawn..)

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Dan Wright '92          DWRIGHT@SIF	   dwright@hmcvax.claremont.edu
Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA	Mac Systems Manager  [Std disclaimers]
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