Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!caen!uwm.edu!psuvax1!swatsun!news
From: neuburg@campus.swarthmore.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 and color Icons question
Message-ID: <WCW37D3@cs.swarthmore.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 91 17:19:35 GMT
References: <43894@netnews.upenn.edu>
Sender: news@cs.swarthmore.edu
Organization: Swarthmore College
Lines: 21
Nntp-Posting-Host: 130.58.64.164

In article <43894@netnews.upenn.edu> warden@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Robert
Warden) writes:
>
>
>I've been trying to incorporate some of my nice color
>icl8 icons from sun desk (icon gallery) into the 
>programs themselves for finder 7.0.   Both ways I've
>tried have failed.

I was wondering when someone else would notice this. This may help:
When you paste a new icon into the Get Info box, a special alternate
icon is created. Examine this icon (it will be the first one, 
with a large negative number) using ResEdit. Open the ICN# for it,
and look at the *mask* of your new icon. You will see, I suspect,
that the mask does not cover the entirety of the icon you pasted,
and this is why parts of it are getting lost.

I have no idea why this is. However, if you fill in the needed 
bits in the mask by hand, the problem is solved.

Matt Neuburg