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From: dee@cca.CCA.COM (Donald Eastlake)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Strange effect of Mask setting in Icon editing
Message-ID: <27481@cca.CCA.COM>
Date: 28 Apr 88 13:33:09 GMT
References: <9105@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <8995@apple.Apple.Com> <1407@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Reply-To: dee@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Donald Eastlake)
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In article <1407@iscuva.ISCS.COM> jimc@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Jim Cathey) writes:
>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.  

On the other hand, I think that animated ICONs are really neat and a
very MAC-like extension to the interface.

Maybe I am missing something but I don't see any reason for Apple to
have "broken" these programs insteaded of just fixing ICONs so they work
aninated in color.  Especially with the CalcMask call to QuickDraw, the
"mask" part of the ICN# does not seem logically necessary.  Why not just
have the Finder calcualte the mask from the regular ICON or from the xor
as appropriate?

It is too bad that you think the original Apple guidelines are the word
of God and that any deviation therefrom must be excommunicated.

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