Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rna!marc
From: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Help setting application's icon
Message-ID: <226@rna.UUCP>
Date: 19 Aug 88 16:07:19 GMT
References: <77900005@peterson>
Reply-To: marc@rna.UUCP (Marc Johnson)
Organization: Rockefeller University Neurobiology
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In article <77900005@peterson> peterson@peterson.applicon.UUCP writes:
>
>I am trying to make my own icon for an application that I wrote.
> [ stuff deleted ]
>Unfortunately, I want to modify this icon.  It seems that the mac system
>(maybe the Desktop file) is refusing to forget the original icon, and
>no matter what I set it to, the original is still used.
>

Hmmmm...did you try rebuilding the desktop (trash disk's icon, re-insert
disk holding the OPTION and COMMAND keys down)?  I have had inconsistent
luck with resetting icons myself, but this usually works.  There is an
old utility called "IconInstaller" which works when this doesn't.
Good luck.

Marc Johnson
Rockefeller Univ.
(marc%rna@rockefeller.edu  OR rna!marc@rockvax.bitnet [129.85.2.1])