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From: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0 and color Icons question
Summary: There's an easy way...
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Date: 30 May 91 23:29:26 GMT
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In article <43894@netnews.upenn.edu> warden@gradient.cis.upenn.edu (Robert Warden) writes:
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>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:


Okay, try this one.  Use ResEdit, and open up sun desk.  Now, pick an App that
you want to add the icons to.  Copy it, and open the copy.  Double-click the
ICN# resource.  Double-click the icon you want to colorize.  You'll get the
nifty new icon-family editor.  Click the icl8 (which should be dimmed), and
you get the blank slate.  Now, go over to SunDesk, and copy the icl8 you want.
Switch back to the editor, and paste.  Tada!  You can also, now, drag the icl8
directly onto the icl4, and it will copy it, and do a respectable job of
dithering the colors.  You can also drag the icons to the ics counterparts, so
that they will show up in color in the Finder, the Apple Menu, etc.  If you do
that, make sure the small mask is correct.

After you get all the icons done, you can close the editor.  You should now
notice that the app contains new icl8, icl4, ics8, and ics4 resources, and all
the numbers will be right!  Repeat this process for each icon.

This works for me, although with icons I had for ColorDesk.  Hopefully, it
will work for you!