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From: jp48+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan Pace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: This is how you get color icons
Message-ID: <UcAUCM600WB7AAkVxq@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 16 May 91 03:59:20 GMT
Organization: Graduate School of Industrial Administration, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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   Since so many people are starting to struggle with sticking color icons in
the Get Info windows, I'm going to post how to do it.  Pardon the basic
language, but not everybody is a computer wiz.

   Use ResEdit to open the icl8 icon you want.  Open it all the way down to the
fat bits editor level.

   Look at the toolbox on the left.  There is a selector in the top right
corner. Select it, and select the entire icon from corner to diagonally
opposite corner.  Now do a Copy from the Edit menu.

   If you want to check yourself here, you can look at the clipboard from the
Finder Edit menu.  If the icon you want is there you're ok.  If it's not you
did something wrong.

   Assuming you see the icon, do a Get Info on whatever you want to stick the
icon in (your hard drive, an application, etc).  Now click on the icon in the
upper left corner and do a Paste from the Edit menu.  Your color icon should
appear just as you asked.


   Now the strange thing I can't explain.  If you highlight an icon in ResEdit
and do a copy command, you don't get the icon onto the clipboard.  You can
paste inside ResEdit, but it won't go into a Get Info window.  That's what
most people try (myself included) and it doesn't work.  Maybe some of the
technical types out there can explain.  Any takers?

Jon

p.s. - if anyone has the final sys 7, please tell me how I can get a copy.