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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: How do you get an SICN from an ICON/ICN# Resource?
Keywords: Resource, Resource Editor, SICN, ICON, ICN#
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Date: 8 Jan 90 12:42:04 GMT
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In article <37667@apple.Apple.COM> lai@Apple.COM (Ed Lai) writes:
>Get the Clipboard Magician DA from SUMEX.
Or, you can skip the Clipboard Magician and just use ResEdit. Consider:

In ResEdit's ICON bitmap editor, <Shift>-mouse-drag to sweep out a
rectangle. Choose "Copy" from the Edit menu.  This copies the bits as a
PICT onto the clipboard.

Create a SICN using ResEdit's "New" command. In its bitmap editor,
<Shift>-mouse drag to sweep out a rectangle. Choose "Paste" from the edit
menu. This copies the clipboard PICT as bits into the destination
rectangle.

The system will happily shrink or stretch the rectangles if the source and
dest aren't the same size.

The System 7 preliminary documentation said that if a program has a SICN
with the same ID# as its ICN#, then the new Finder will use the SICN
instead of shrinking the ICN# when it wants to display small icons. There
are also complex rules for 4-bit & 8-bit deep color icons (not quite
cicns.) and 4-bit & 8-bit deep color small icons.

You have to use the standard color tables, because the Finder will use one
table for all its color icons.

If you are going to be doing a lot of this stuff, it is nice to have a
tool.

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