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From: jellinghaus-robert@CS.YALE.EDU (Rob Jellinghaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System/Finder patch available??
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Date: 3 Mar 88 00:55:10 GMT
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In article <9756@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> desdemona!hallett@steinmetz.UUCP (Jeffrey A. Hallett) writes:
>I have a black and white Mac Plus running the newest Finder.  Most of
>you have probably noticed that fancy, metahorphic icons (ie. Red
>Ryder) don't work anymore.  Understandibly so, since Apple warned
>people not to make such icons since color systems wouldn't handle them
>correctly.
>
>Well, it appears that Apple has made good its threat.  However, having
>a black and white, I don't care if my icons work under color or not (I
>don't mean the ones I make; rather, the ones on applications I already
>have).  Therefore, it would be nice if there were a patch to Finder
>that would put the old masking procedure back for us poor Black and
>White slobs.
>
>Anyone got any ideas??

As far as I know, the reason Apple changed the way icon masks work is
not because of possible problems with color systems, but because it
was very difficult to deal with fancy icon masks while writing Multi-
finder.  I suppose it has something to do with the vastly increased
complexity of writing on the desktop, when there are N applications
all using it simultaneously.

If this is the case, a patch such as the one you describe could be
seriously hazardous to the health of Multifinder.

Just my semi-informed opinion... which could be wrong....

>Jeffrey A. Hallett                     | ARPA: hallett@ge-crd.arpa
>Software Technology Program                   | UUCP: desdemona!hallett@steinmetz.uucp
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