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From: drc@dbase.UUCP (Dennis Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Request for icon generation sw
Message-ID: <241@dbase.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-Sep-87 19:32:43 EDT
Article-I.D.: dbase.241
Posted: Sun Sep 27 19:32:43 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 29-Sep-87 06:20:44 EDT
References: <1301@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Organization: Ashton Tate Development Center Glendale Cal.
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Summary: Use IconMaker DA

In article <1301@bgsuvax.UUCP>, instone@bgsuvax.UUCP (Keith Instone) writes:
> 
> I need to generate _a_lot_ of ICON resources for a program I am writing.
> 
> Is there any piece of software around written specifically for this task?
> 
> 'RMaker' will do the trick, except I have to figure out the hex representation
> of the 32 by 32 bit map by hand. That is too much work.
> 
> 'ResEdit' will work too, but it isn't very friendly.
> 
> What else is out there??
> 

What I would recommend is to do what I do when I need to generate icons.  I
create them in SuperPaint (or FullPaint or MacPaint) and use the IconMaker DA
that has been posted to a number of services including this one in the past.
This allows you to "block off" a 32x32 portion of the screen and save that as
an ICON.  If you want the hex representation, use ResTools 2.0 (recently posted
here) to decompile it.

Dennis Cohen
Ashton-Tate Glendale Development Center
dBASE Mac Development Team