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From: dean@aoa.UUCP (Dean Wormell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: YAHQ (Yet Another Hypercard Question)
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Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 14:17:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 20 14:17:18 1987
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Keywords: How to add ICONs to Hypercard
Summary: Creating ICONS from ICN#


A proficient Mac hacker taught me this method to turn an ICN# resource into
an ICON resource which then can be installed into Hypercard (or any other
application containing the ICON resource) using ResEdit.  You need ResEdit,
ResDecomp, a text editor, RMaker and some patience to complete the following
procedure.

	First open the program which contains the desired icon using ResEdit.
	If the icon you desire is shown when you open the ICON resource
		of that program, you simply need to copy and paste that ICON
		into you destination program's ICON resource (i.e. Hypercard).
	If not, close the source program (Hypercard) inside of ResEdit and 
		create a new file using the New command inside of ResEdit 
		(name it anything you want).
	Now, open the ICN# resource in the source program then copy and paste
		the pictures of the desired icons into your new file.  This
		step can be done for all the source program icons you desire,
		such that your new file will contain an ICN# resource with
		several different icons inside of this resource.
	Once you've created this new file with all the icons you want, save
		and close this file and quit ResEdit.
	Now the fun begins, use ResDecomp, or any other resource decompiling
		utility (do others exsist??) to open and decompile the ICN#
		resource of your new file.  This creates a text file.
	Quit ResDecomp and open the text file with a text editor (Edit,
		MacWrite, MSWord, etc...).  Do a search for occurrences of
		ICN# and replace them with ICON.
	Each resource will be divided into blocks of hex data; what you need
		to do is remove the LOWER half (or lower eight of sixteen lines)
		of hex data in each block.
	Once you have completed the last two steps for all the blocks of data
		in your text file, save the file as text and quit the editor.
	Now you need to open RMaker, or another resource compiling utility (do
		others exsist???) and compile the edited text file.
	Open this compiled file from ResEdit and PRESTO you now have all those
		icons as ICON resources which can be copied and pasted into
		your destination program's ICON resource (i.e. HyperCard).

I know this is a little long winded and tedious, but I've done this for several
ICONs that I wanted to use in HyperCard, and it works!!

Good luck!

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		Dean Wormell

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