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From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: What is an SICN?
Message-ID: <226000050@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 89 18:18:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr    Jan 16 12:18:00 1989


DN5@PSUVM.BITNET(Jay, etc) writes in comp.sys.mac.programmer

First of all let me apologize for the previous message which went out without
the changes due to a system crash.  Anyway, here is the answer..

>I was poking about the the finder trying to find out how the finder puts
>up those real small icons when you look into a window by doing a view by name,
>and found that the symbols to the left of the name (showing folder/app/
>document) are of resource type SICN (listed in IM 5 as Script Symbol).
>Unfortunately, the only reference I could find to SICN in IM 5 was that
>a resource of this type is reserved, but what it was was never explained.
>
>Does anybody out there know what it is and how to access it?

	As Paul pints out a SICN is a Small ICoN.  It's structure is simply a
16x16 bit image.  You can access it by simply doing a GetResource on it, and
blockmoving the data into the baseAddr of a BitMap and then copybitzing it
onto the screen.  

	The SICN is used in two places that I know of - 1) The Notification Manager
uses the SICN as the thing to blink over the Apple and 2) The Script Manager
puts up a SICN representing the current Script System in the upper right.


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