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From: richr@iddic.UUCP (Rich Rodgers)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: RMover and ResEdit answers and question
Message-ID: <1895@iddic.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 17:39:50 EST
Article-I.D.: iddic.1895
Posted: Fri Jan  4 17:39:50 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Jan-85 00:18:34 EST
References: <216@calmasd.UUCP> <186@usl.UUCP> <1281@orca.UUCP>
Reply-To: richr@iddic.UUCP (Rich Rodgers)
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Summary: 

In article <1281@orca.UUCP> davidl@orca.UUCP (David Levine) writes:

>ResEdit is powerful.  For example, you may have noticed that downloaded
>applications all appear as "generic" application icons, but some have ICN#
>resources buried within them.  I have figured out a way to make these "buried" 
>icons appear, using ResEdit and Fedit (File and Volume editor), but I don't 
>completely understand what I'm doing:

This procedure can be done using SetFile instead of Fedit if you do not have
Fedit (as I don't).

>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 finds an application with the bundle bit set it searches for
three files... ICN#, BNDL, FREF and using the BNDL file it finds one more
which is the file you referred to as the funny one usually having the program
or programmers name in 4 letters.  It then appends the ICN#, BNDL, and FREF
files to the simalarly named files in the DeskTop file assigning new numbers
to file numbers to fit on the disk.  It also copies the funny file into the
DeskTop.  Thus if you want to change the icon of a file you must change
the icon as it appears in the DeskTop ICN# file.  Or you can change it in
the file before you set the bundle bit, then when the finder goes to do it's
thing, it will copy the new icon to the DeskTop.  If you copy the file to
another disk, the icon from the application is shown if the bundle bit is
set, not the icon from the DeskTop.  Sorry if this is hard to read, but...
getting tired...


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	NO way!

Rich Rodgers

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