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From: c60a-4ag@web8h.berkeley.edu (Robert Menke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Strange effect of Mask setting in Icon editing
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Date: 29 Apr 88 00:41:57 GMT
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In article <27481@cca.CCA.COM> dee@CCA.CCA.COM.UUCP (Donald Eastlake) writes:
...
>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...

As someone told me through the mail, the actual reason for making the new icons
AND with their masks instead of XORing with them is to support the "open
application" icon generated under MultiFinder. ResEdit, the version I have, has
not been updated to realize this.

Thanks to all those people who replied.

							--Rob

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