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From: andrew@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Andrew C. Esh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Help setting application's icon
Summary: Read IM-III, summary here.
Message-ID: <6581@ems.Ems.MN.ORG>
Date: 23 Aug 88 04:14:40 GMT
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Reply-To: andrew@ems.Ems.MN.ORG (Andrew C. Esh)
Organization: EMS/McGraw-Hill, Eden Pairie, MN
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	Inside Macintosh, Volume 3, pages 10-12, summary:

Using ResEdit:

1.  Create an 'FREF' resource which contains 'APPL', and a local ID number
(I use 0).

2.  Create a 'vers' resource (any ID number), which contains a
Pascal string (length byte, followed by chars), which has your version in it.

3.  Create a 'BNDL' which has your program's signature,
the version resource ID.

4.  Add an icon list to your BNDL with local ID 0 (set above), and the
actual resource ID of the desired icon.

5.  Add an FREF entry with a local ID, and a resource ID which is the same
as the FREF resource's.

6.  Now reset (set to zero) the "inited" bit in the file info to tell the
Finder that it needs to look at the file again, and copy the file to a new
disk.  The Finder will see the reset inited bit and reload the icon into
the desktop.  This step took me a few tries; help, anyone?

	If it doesn't work, RTFM, and try it again.  All the resources
must match up, or you get nothing.

						- Andrew
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