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From: ahlstrom@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (Lee M. Ahlstrom)
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Subject: Customizing icons to individual applications
Keywords: iconsmith, customization, .fti files, .rtr files
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Date: 11 Feb 91 20:43:31 GMT
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Greetings,

I am in need of a bit of help from someone who is familiar with
using iconsmith on the PI.  My problem is this:  I have an
application called wind which at the moment is displayed in
the workspace as a generic executable icon.  I've used 
the iconsmith application to create both an open and a 
closed version of icons named 'wind.open.fti' and
'wind.closed.fti'.  No problems so far.
	
Then I checked out the document README.to.create.icons in
my /usr/people/4Dgifts/iristools/icon directory and also
the README.to.install.icons.  The second document tells
how to install an icon or icons you've just created, but it's
not the clearest thing in the world, and I was wondering
if someone has been able to figure it out.

Here's what I did:

1) Create wind.open.fti and wind.closed.fti files.

2) copied a version of the /usr/libtype/filetype/templates
   document 'template.exec.rtr' to a file called 'wind.rtr'.

3) Edited 'wind.rtr' and replaced the paths for the open
   and closed version of the icon.

4) changed the 'include("youricon.fti")' to 
   'include("wind.fti")'
   [I'm fairly confused about that one and won't be
    surprised if it's totally wrong.]

5) Copied the makefile and modified the following
   variables:

	RTR_FILES to = wind.rtr
	TARGETS to = path.rtr
6) Typed 'make install'

7) Didn't become surprised when no changes
   in the icons occurred.

		
If anyone has used this procedure and can help me with it,
I'd truly appreciate it!

				Thanks,
					Lee Ahlstrom


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Lee Ahlstrom		ahlstrom@oscar.ccm.udel.edu
Center For Composite Materials
University of Delaware
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