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From: jkeegan@hawk.ulowell.edu (Jeff Keegan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Pasting icon/picts onto icons in get-info boxes
Keywords: 7, ICONS, icons
Message-ID: <1991May27.203211.3542@ulowell.ulowell.edu>
Date: 27 May 91 20:32:11 GMT
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Well, I'm not sure if this is really a question for comp.sys.mac.programmer,
but I feel most comfortable positing it here because the people that will
be able to answer it (and that will be interested in it) will be programmers
(I imagine).. Ok.. 

I like the feature of System 7 that allows you to paste a PICT (preferably
ICON sized) into the get info box in the finder, to give something another
icon.. The thing I'm wondering though is considering the lack of a mask
definition, how does it determine a mask? Is it doing the same thing that
ResEdit does when you drag a icl8 to the mask field?  And where is this
information kept, the new desktop files? (forgive me if this is covered in
Inside Macintosh VI, I have yet to be able to obtain a copy)..

The reason for my question is less than professional, I admit, but I still have
to mention it..  You see I used to use SunDesk to put this really nice color
Hobbes icon on my hard drive.. But when I went into ResEdit, edited the icl8,
selected all and copied the pict, then pasted it onto the get-info box for my
hard drive, the icon I saw was masked wrong since I only saw small parts of 
the icon, and the drag-region when moving it covered only those parts.  It was
as if the other colors didn't register.  So I went back into ResEdit and
had it remap the colors for the icon into the system's colors (the 34 Apple
Icon colors) and it still didn't work..  I made sure the icon was completely
enclosed and still nothing..

I realize this is not a very important feature (obviously) since it's not like
we're creating a new icon family for it or anything, but I'm just wondering
if there is a way around this.. That black and white Hobbes icon is looking
pretty pale.  Maybe I should consider seeing if Calvin looks better...

Hmm..

..Jeff Keegan

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