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From: billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Removing startup icons?
Message-ID: <3fb43dda.129dc@blue.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 88 17:58:00 GMT
References: <593@husc6.harvard.edu> <583@poseidon.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: billkatt@caen.engin.umich.edu (Steve Bollinger)
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In article <583@poseidon.ATT.COM> ech@poseidon.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) writes:
>From article <593@husc6.harvard.edu>, by hellerst@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Joe Hellerstein):
>> Is there a quick, or at least reasonable way to keep startup icons from
>> appearing when inits are installed?  ResEdit or Fedit or something?
>> I know they don't always just use the desktop icon, so is it possible
>> to simply remove certain ICONs with resedit?
>
>There's no guarantee -- different methods are available -- but the original
>Paul Mercer code just looks for an ICON with the appropriate ID and displays
>it.  It fails soft if the ICON isn't present.  So, from ResEdit, open the
>INIT/cdev/RDEV, open ICON, select the offending icon, and pick Clear from
>the Edit menu.
>
Whoops, it looks for an ICN#, usually the one that shows up in the finder.
It should be possible, though.  Just change the ID of the ICN# that appears
at startup, and if it is also the one that shows in the finder, then change
the same number in the ICN# part of the 'BNDL' resource.  If you are
modifying a cdev, then you should change these number to a value between
-4064 and -4049 (inclusive), otherwise they should be above 128.
enjoy.

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