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From: swede (Jim Mynatt)
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Subject: Re: The World Icon
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Date: 4 Jun 91 20:04:58 GMT
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In article <6327@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> tdawson@weeg.uiowa.edu (Tim Dawson) writes:
  > In article <4048@nosc.NOSC.MIL> beck@VAX309.NOSC.MIL writes:
  > > Hello!
  > > I would like to "find" the World Icon that automatically comes up
  > > to represent the directory /Net and use it for my directories
  > > that are actually NFS clients. More generally, how does one "attach"
  > > an icon to a directory? If you look in /Net, there's nothing there.
  > > 
  > > Thanks in Advance!
  > > 
  > > Reply to: beck@cpl.nosc.mil
  > >           Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, CA
  > 
  > In my experience, the easiest way to "find" an icon is to rip it off
  > using Icon's "grab" feature (I know Icon is buggy, just be careful).
  > Then set the image size to 48 x 48 and save the file as "world.tiff" or
  > something.  As far as "attaching" the icon, simply move the file to 
  > the folder you want to iconize and rename the file to ".dir.tiff"
  > (excluding the quotes, of course).  It's that easy.
  > 
  > Hope this helps.
  > 
  > Tim Dawson
  > University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

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You might try "Grab" in /NextDevelper/Demos.
 Also if you want a different icon to indicate it is receiving something (like  
when you drag something into folder - it opens) just place another appropriate  
icon (world split open maybe) and name it .opendir.tiff

	jim
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