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From: dth@reef.cis.ufl.edu (David Hightower)
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Subject: Re: ResEdit poking in 7.0
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Date: 20 May 91 19:13:24 GMT
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In article <34651@mimsy.umd.edu> folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) writes:
>Someone talked about getting small icons in ResEdit and pasting them into a
>file's Get Info Box. It only seems to work when you copy from the Icon Family
>Edit window. This is because copying in this window copies as a PICT, which is
>
>Last, I have had several ResEdit 2.1 bombs when cutting and pasting ICN#s.
>Especially when dragging an ICN# to an ics# in the Icon Family Edit window.

It seems that everybody is using ResEdit to change their icons around.

Hmm....maybe I'm doing things by the "kludge" method, but I've modified
all my folder icons, without using ResEdit.  Here's how:

I open the "get info" window of the folder I'd like to modify.  I "copy"
the icon of the folder onto the clipboard.  I open DESKPAINT from my
apple items menu, and paste the folder icon.  I switch back to the
desktop, go into the folder, select the main application in that folder
(for example, Excel 3.0), get info on it, and copy the icon.  I then
switch back to DESKPAINT, paste the new icon, scale by percent to ~60%,
and then using the marquee I move the icon onto the folder icon. I then
color, edit, change whatever I want, and then select the new image with
the Marquee.  Copy the new icon, go back to the desktop, and paste the
icon into the icon space for the folder.

Am I doing things the hard way, or the easy way?  It takes about 2
minutes to do all the copying, editing, and pasting, and I never have to
muck about with ResEdit.

Dave
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