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From: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
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Subject: Re: Does Finder display color icon (cicn)?
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Date: 3 Jun 89 17:25:00 GMT
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In article <22480@santra.UUCP> Jussi-Pekka Mantere <jpm@cs.hut.fi> writes:
>In article <13331@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>, chou@umn-cs (Hsiang Chou) writes:
>>	Does anyone out there know how to make the Finder display
>>color icons (i.e. true cicn, not ICON with color selected from the Color
>>menu) for applications and documents on the desktop?
>Install the 32-bit Color QuickDraw from Apple's Color Disk. 


  This isn't quite true.  The 32 bit Color Quickdraw file only allows for
its own color icon.  Other icons in the Finder still stay black and white or
single colored.  A few of us here hacked the file and learned that for a file
to have a color icon, it must be a patch file (type 'ptch') and have the
string '32-bit Color Quickdraw' in its signature type.  It looks like they
keep some code in the 'ICN#' resource as well, but we're not sure about this
aspect.  In other words, it's a really twised way of getting a color icon.
  So, to answer the original question, no, you can't get color icons in the
current Finder.

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