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From: riddle@emory.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: icons from MacPascal
Message-ID: <1990@emory.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Feb-87 00:24:28 EST
Article-I.D.: emory.1990
Posted: Mon Feb 16 00:24:28 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Feb-87 06:57:31 EST
Organization: Math & Computer Science, Emory University, Atlanta
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Keywords: icons, MacPascal application

MacPascal V2.0 can now save a program as an application that can be
run (in conjunction with PSHELL) from the desktop by double clicking.
My question is about creating an icon for this application.  When
I saved my program from inside MacPascal, the program had the same
icon as the MacPascal application.  When I looked at it with 
ResEdit, however, no ICN# resource was listed!  If I copy the program
application to another disk, it has the generic application icon, but
returns to the MacPascal icon when I move it back to the original
Pascal disk.  No attempt at creating a new icon with ResEdit was
successful in replacing the MacPascal icon with my own, but I must
admit to being a novice ResEdit user.

So, can
(1) someone explain to me what might be the problem here and how to
    create my own application icon when I save a MacPascal program
    as an application.
(2) explain the general principal on how the finder knows what icons
    to use for applications and documents.  I could not figure out
    any relationship between the ID number of an icon in ICN# in
    the desktop and the corresponding icon in ICN# in the 
    application.

Thanks.

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