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From: ech@spuxll.UUCP (Ned Horvath)
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Subject: Re: RMover and ResEdit answers and question
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Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 20:34:48 EST
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> 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...

Unfortunately, the Finder only believes its Desktop file once it copies the
icons out of the application.  Rather than trash the Desktop, you might use
ResEdit to find the ICN# for the application IN THE DESKTOP, edit it there,
then Copy/Paste it back into the application.  Note that you will have to
cut out the old ICN# in the application, and change the resource ID of the
modified one in the application if you want the change to propagate to other
disks with the application.

Watch out for a nasty I have tripped over: the Finder apparently NEVER removes
BNDLs, ICN#s, FREFs, and the 'name' resources from the Desktop.  When my
Desktop started approaching 10k (too much downloading, tsk) I HAD to clobber
the Desktop: the finder started reporting too little memory to eject the
startup disk, and inviting me to remove 'one or more dimmed disk icons' (of
which there were, of course, none).

Is that why MacTerminal doesn't set the Bundle Bit on downloads?  To give you
the chance to get it somewhere safe (like off the MacTerminal disk!) first?

=Ned=