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From: ralph@atrp.mit.edu (Ralph L. Vinciguerra)
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Subject: Re: How to Create Icons for Files?
Summary: A simple trick for icon creation
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Date: 8 Mar 91 17:47:12 GMT
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Just thought I'd pass along a simple trick for dealing with programs which
don'tcreate icons. The old interfaces which formed the roots for the ones
we use now usually worked this way:
   If you wanted a new document, you would make a copy
of a blank one, and then rename the copy and double click on it to get going.
This removed the need to even reference the document program at all.

Thus you can do this (I use this technique all the time):
 - Create an empty document, name it "empty" or "blank", with an icon and
   perhaps place it in a drawer named "supplies".
 - Now, each time your user wants to create a new document, they just pull
   a copy out of the supplies drawer and go.  If the supplies drawer is on a
   different disk volume, just dragging it over to a new place will make the
   copy. Otherwise, they'll need to use the workbench "duplicate" menu choice.