Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!ward From: ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: RMover and ResEdit answers and question Message-ID: <1322@hao.UUCP> Date: Thu, 3-Jan-85 15:12:20 EST Article-I.D.: hao.1322 Posted: Thu Jan 3 15:12:20 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Jan-85 04:10:36 EST References: <216@calmasd.UUCP> <186@usl.UUCP> <1281@orca.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 27 > And now, a question: pending real documentation for ResEdit, can anyone post a > cookbook method for editing an application's existing icon? So far, no changes > I have made with ResEdit in already-visible icons have had any effect. I > think the problem is that once the Finder has seen an application with an > icon, it thinks that's always the application's icon... When the Finder opens an application that has the bundle resources (types BNDL, FREF, ICN# and *name* (that's the one with the type the same as the creator)) in the resource fork, and the bundle bit set, it moves the bundle resources from the application file into the desktop file. This is where it goes to find the icon to display on the screen. Changing the ICN# resource in the application file will not have any effect on what you see unless you delete the Desktop file (hold down option and command as the disk is being booted) or delete all the required resources from the Desktop file. The first method will eliminate all your folders, and the second method will destroy many disks until you figure out just what must and must not be removed. -- Michael Ward, NCAR/SCD UUCP: {hplabs,nbires,brl-bmd,seismo,menlo70,stcvax}!hao!ward ARPA: hplabs!hao!sa!ward@Berkeley BELL: 303-497-1252 USPS: POB 3000, Boulder, CO 80307