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From: julian@riacs.edu (Julian E Gomez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Icon generation sw
Message-ID: <635@hydra.riacs.edu>
Date: Sun, 4-Oct-87 22:32:53 EDT
Article-I.D.: hydra.635
Posted: Sun Oct  4 22:32:53 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 8-Oct-87 03:13:43 EDT
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Reply-To: julian@hydra.riacs.edu.UUCP (Julian E Gomez)
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Keywords: Thanks and Language question too

In article <1310@bgsuvax.UUCP> instone@bgsuvax.UUCP (Keith Instone) writes:
> Thanks to everyone for their kind suggestions about 'hacking' together
> icon resources.  Using DAs (such as Icon Maker or McSink) and your favorite
> graphics program seems to work pretty well, in fact.  Why should anyone 
> want more?  Well, I do.
> I thought one of these easily found Mac progammers ( :-} ) would have
> already come up with a simple little application which could do it all.
> Just take a 32 by 32 Fat Bits type grid and make a resource out of it.
> But, alas, I see that nothing exists yet.  

Besides Iconmaker, there are two programs in the <INFO-MAC> archives:
	Icon Hacker 0.95 (ICON-HACKER-095.HQX)
	IEdit 1.1	 (IEDIT.HQX)

Both work on System 4.1, but they still need some work. A big problem
with Icon Hacker is that it doesn't display both an ICN# mask
completely, which is real annoying (ResEdit does).  A problem with both
of them is that they don't have any operations like oval or rectangle;
they paint only in fatbits mode.

IEdit has a lot of features in the menu that aren't implemented yet.
Kent Flowers, the author, said he still plans to work on version 2.0,
but because he wants to include color icons doesn't think it'll be
ready before spring.

-- 
"Physicists are mathematicians in a hurry"  B. Mandelbrot

	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
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