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From: jgray@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Jeff Gray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Icon-related wierdness in 7.0
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Date: 31 May 91 07:06:36 GMT
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Two questions:

1)  The Finder will now display ics# icons in the Apple menu and as the 
active application for the Application menu when it can, but if there
isn't such an icon available,  it will revert to the old trick of
shrinking a 32x32 icon into a 16x16 space, frequently resulting in 
an amorphous black blob.  So I thought I'd be clever and add
ics# icons to old applications so the small icons would display better.
But I'm running on a Classic and even though I can examine existing
ics# resources in b/w, if I try to create one myself it says I can't
because I don't have color.  Is there another resource type that does
the same job or a way to edit color icons in b/w?

2)  I have a couple international keymaps and under 7.0 the SICN flags that
used to show up in the Keyboard control panel next to the name of the keymaps
are now gone.  Looking at the System with Resedit, the KCHR and SICN
resources are all there and the ID numbers still match.  The strange
thing is that I connected an external drive that was still running 6.0.7,
and when I opened the keyboard control panel (the Sys 7.0 version),
the SICN flags had reappeared, but went away again after disconnecting the
external drive.  Can anyone make sense of this behavior?

Jeff Gray
jgray@balboa.eng.uci.edu