Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!nsc!amdahl!kucharsk From: kucharsk@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Changing Icons using ResEdit Message-ID: Date: 18 Oct 88 21:16:28 GMT References: <1675@goanna.oz> <4685@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <160@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> Reply-To: kucharsk@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (William Kucharski) Organization: Amdahl Coup, UTS Products Hen House Lines: 32 In article <160@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk> jrk@s1.sys.uea.ac.uk (Richard Kennaway CMP RA) writes: >[A followup to a question and various answers to problems in changing >BNDL/ICN#/FREFs properly] > >Another pitfall to beware, which I havent seen described anywhere, is that >under MultiFinder, if the file whose icon you are trying to change is visible >in a finder window or on the desktop, changing the type and/or creator >of the file can have no effect - the Finder (or something) sets it back >to what it was. Always close the Finder window containing the file, or >move it into a closed folder, before hacking the types. > >Richard Kennaway >School of Information Systems, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. >uucp: ...mcvax!ukc!uea-sys!jrk Janet: kennaway@uk.ac.uea.sys Actually, if I'm not mistaken, it's generally BAD to be using ResEdit under MultiFinder anyway. Although I've never had any problems doing it, I've been warned against it enough by various people and publications to not do it anymore. Does anyone else know if I'm being safe/over cautious? -- William Kucharski ARPA: kucharsk@uts.amdahl.com UUCP: ...!{ames,decwrl,sun,uunet}!amdahl!kucharsk Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are my own, and may not agree with those of any other sentient being, not to mention those of my employer.