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From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: A \"Fade To Black\" question
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Date: Fri, 7-Feb-86 11:58:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb  7 11:58:22 1986
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|When the screen  is  "black",  it  lets  you  know  it's alive by 
|randomly moving the current  application's  icon  around  on  the 
|screen.  HOWEVER, when its  the  FINDER  that's  running, it just 
|moves a blank square.
|
|Wouldn't it be more appropriate to  move  the  Finder's icon (the 
|"System Mac)?

Probably, but all I do to get the applications icon is to set the current
resource file to the current applications resource id, and get ICN# 128.
This is the "standard" ICN# for applications, so it works in most cases,
with the notable exception of, you guessed it, the Finder.  The Finder isn't
and application (try double clicking it), so it doesn't have an ICN#.  It's
icon is actually ICN# 3 (I think) in the system file.  I could probably look
for ICN# 3 if there is no 128, but then Apple could make the Finder a normal
application too (which I've done, so all my Finders have proper ICN#'s, and
are double clickable).  I'll probably do that for the next version of Fade,
when I get time to work on it.

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Brian L. Matthews
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