Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!orange.cis.ohio-state.edu!rajiv From: rajiv@orange.cis.ohio-state.edu (Rajiv Agrawal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Making Icons! Message-ID: <10926@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 18 Apr 88 23:02:21 GMT References: Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Computer and Information Science Lines: 36 In article es1o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Eric Mitchell Snider) writes: > >Can someone please explain in detail how to create icons for >applications? I can change existing icons (Like the garbagecan etc.) >but I want to make my own Icon for a program I wrote. I've been >trying lots of things with ResEdit but I just can't get it to >work.... > > > Eric Here is the complete way to make icons. Someone told me this sometime back since I ran into the same problem: 1. Copy BNDL, FREF, ICN# resources from some place. I copied it from MacsBug. I am sure Finder will do. 2. Change the owner on BNDL resource. Give it the name, say, eric. 3. Create a signature resource and call it eric. Give this resource an id=0. 4. Close all the resources and do a Get Info on your application and change the owner to eric. Save the changes and get out of ResEdit. If you don't see your icon, then try rebuilding the desktop. (Since I am pretty new to Mac programming, some "gurus" can correct me.) Rajiv Agrawal. -=- -------------------------------------------------------------------- 206 W 18th Ave INTERBIT: rajiv@orange.cis.ohio-state.edu Columbus, OH 43210 agrawal-r@eng.ohio-state.edu (614) 292-9029 BITNET: ts5600@ohstvma DECnet: 6177::agrawal