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From: andrew@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Andrew C. Esh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Finder 6.0 in "Scourge of the Killer Icons"
Message-ID: <3997@ems.Ems.MN.ORG>
Date: 8 Feb 88 19:41:19 GMT
References: <16005@think.UUCP> <1193@cooper.cooper.EDU>
Reply-To: andrew@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Andrew C. Esh)
Organization: EMS/McGraw-Hill, Eden Pairie, MN
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Keywords: icon mask Finder 6.0


	The problem with the icons is not a new "bug" in Finder 6.0,
it is a misuse of the mask by some developers.  In Tech Note
#147, last paragraph, Apple tells us that the icon mask should be
just that, a "solid black copy of the icon, containing no holes."
The problem comes with the new color environment on the Mac II,
where the mask is needed to punch holes in what may be a color
background.  I have noticed bits of color hanging around inside
some icons after they have been moved or uncovered.  This is probably
because the mask wasn't there to clean up first.
	While I'm up here on the soapbox ... RTFM seens to apply more
to Mac developer's than most.  Probably because the Mac depends on the
developer to get things right, rather than have the user muddle through
life in the command line lane.  I'm reminded of the tourists in Florida who
gather wherever there is a "Do not feed the Alligators" sign to feed the
alligators.  Sooner or later, one of them gets chomped.  Pay attention,
folks, not so you can troop along behind some BIG company's standards, but
rather avoid the embarassment of getting your bits nibbled off as you
explore the frontier. :-)


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