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From: ari@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ari Halberstadt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: How to set a custom icon for a folder in 7.0?
Summary: Can do it a for a file, but what calls do I make for a folder?
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Date: 3 May 91 22:06:36 GMT
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After reading the Finder Interface chapter of IM-VI, then rereading
the chapter, I am still unable to determine how to set a customized
icon for a folder. I know this can be done since it's possible to
paste an icon into a folder's get info dialog (I did this for a
temporary trash folder, looks just like the real thing!) But the IM
docs don't say how to indicate that the folder has an icon, neither do
they indicate where to put the icon, though I guess it's probably
somewhere in the desktop database. On a related note, how can a folder
be assigned a four character type so that FindFolder will locate it
(and is this possible)?