Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!mit-amt!adam From: adam@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Adam Glass) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Icon Compile Keywords: GRPL Message-ID: <498@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> Date: 16 Aug 89 18:36:35 GMT References: <1616@mtunb.ATT.COM> Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA Lines: 34 iggy@mtunb.ATT.COM (Igor Sinyak) writes: > I have a whole bunch of files that look like decompiled icons, but I can't > compile them. There is a TYPE = GRPL that neither RMaker nor REdit will > compile. Any ideas? Try getting your hands on a DA from Apple (but not supported by them) called "Clipboard Magician". Using any file creator/type changing programs (such as MacTools, ResEdit, and countless others...), change the type of the file(s) to TEXT, and their creator to MACA. Go into MacWrite, Word, RedWriter, etc..., and copy the "decompiled icon" data to the clipboard. Now, open the Clipboard Manager DA and do something called "Type Coersion". Change the resource type from whatever it is to "ICON". If that doesn't work, try repeating the last step but making the data "ICN#" instead (difference: though they have the same visual size (32x32 pixels) the ICON does not have extra data for a mask, whereas the ICN# does). And if that doesn't work, a last-ditch attempt would be to try PICT instead if ICON or ICN#. You *might* be able to get them to work by changing the type/creator to RSRC and RSED (this might be rsed -- I'm not certain). This would allow you to open them directly in ResEdit, but it may lose when it tries to open the hacked files. AND... if ALL THAT doesn't work... "...then there's only one thing you can really do to him..." "What's that?" "Go through his pockets and look for loose change." - The Princess Bride Adam (Yes, you get to see my usual tPB .sig file, also...) -- "Offer me anything I ask for..." (mail address in message header) "Anything you want." "I want my father back, you son of a bitch." - The Princess Bride