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From: syap@ur-tut.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Generic Icon
Message-ID: <854@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jan 88 02:11:10 GMT
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Organization: Gadgetland USA
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Posted: Wed Jan 20 21:11:10 1988

[Munch Munch]

Can anyone enlighten me as to the exact process the Finder uses and what
role the BNDLs and FREFs play in causing a new ICN# to appear on the
Desktop?  I ask because there is one application whose icon I cannot get
to appear on the desktop of my hard disk; it always shows up generic.  I
know it has real icons -- I found them with ResEdit.

I've tried pasting the BNDL, FREF and ICN# resources from the application
into the desktop, then turning off the Inited flag; using PurgeIcons; and
rebuilding the desktop file completely with reboot-option-twaddle-etc.

If I knew more about what what BNDL and FREF tell the Finder about the
APPL's ICN#, I would be more than happy to spruce things up myself in
ResEdit.  (Amazingly useful program.  Just the other day I deciphered
the hex in Crystal Raider's high-score list resource.)

Ironically, the only icon PurgeIcons changed from "generic" to "real"
was its own.

If I thought removing and replacing the program would do it, I would.
I'm trying to avoid this, however, since I just reformatted the disk
and don't want to segment it again.
						James

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