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From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Changing Icons using ResEdit
Message-ID: <926@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 15 Oct 88 05:37:39 GMT
References: <1675@goanna.oz> <10050029@eecs.nwu.edu>
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
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In article <10050029@eecs.nwu.edu> bob@eecs.nwu.edu (Bob Hablutzel) writes:
>> Problem: icon remains unchanged. Any advice, suggestions would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>
>It looks like you may have forgotten one of two steps:
>1) Setting the creator for the application to your signature,
>2) Setting the bundle bit for the application. 
>Either of these can be done with ResEdit.

There is one more step. If the Finder has seen your Application, it will mark
it as "Inited".  The Finder only gets bundles (and does all that other good
stuff necessary to give your app an Icon) when it sees a file for the first
time. To tell it that your app now has a budle which it didn't before, you
can use ResEdit (or DiskTools, or many other tools) to set its "Inited"
attribute off. The next time you open the app's folder (or re-enter the Finder,
under UniFinder), it will get the bundle, put it in the desktop file, and
you'll have your icon.

Two other (much less nice) ways of doing this are rebuilding the desktop and
copying the file to another disk.

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