Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!iscuva!jimc
From: jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Strange effect of Mask setting in Icon editing
Message-ID: <1407@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Date: 27 Apr 88 17:55:29 GMT
References: <9105@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <8995@apple.Apple.Com>
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In article <8995@apple.Apple.Com> darin@apple.UUCP (Darin Adler) writes:
>In article <9105@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> c60a-4ag@web7a.berkeley.edu (Robert Menke) writes:
>> ... I got a weird hybrid of what I wanted and the unselected icon. Is
>> this a flaw in ResEdit, or some undocumented "Feature" of the Finder (V6.0)

>of Inside Mac says. It says that there should be a mask "consisting of the
>icon's outline filled with black". Some people took advantage of the Xor-
>ing effect to create "animated icons". Unfortunately, when user coloring of

I _hate_ those 'animated' icons.  Try putting one of them on a non-white
background sometime (like the desktop which I do a lot of).  What a mess!
Why don't those folks go back to their C-64s...  The mask is for punching a
hole in the background, and the icon is for filling it back in.  RTFM Red
Ryder and LSC.  I'm glad Apple has the guts to 'break' programs that have
clearly violated the rules.  

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