[Metacard] OS X: 'icns' resources?

[fuegox at mac.com]

On Monday, November 26, 2001, at 12:37 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Anyone know where on Apple's site they have the info on how to create 
> 'icns'
> resources?

I downloaded apples developer tools.  It that tool set you will find the 
following app:  iconComposer

It has the ability to import .pict and .tiff images.  I have found the 
.tiff to work best.

You must create the icon in the following sizes:  128x128, 48x48, 32x32, 
16x16 if you want the icon to size nicely.  They must also contain an 
alpha mask.  I used Graphic Converter to do that.

The last step is to get this data into your saved app under the "icns" 
resource.  This was tricky because ResEdit only copies in 32k at a time 
from the clipboard.  I found that on average the icons were from 60-70k 
in size.  I just learned from poking around that Graphic Converter can 
transfer the whole resource over in a couple of mouse clicks with its 
"copy file into resource" menu option.  That is a big time saver.

If you want that iconComposer app, just let me know.  I can simply email 
it over to you since it is a free app for all developers.  I am more 
than happy to explain any of this in more detail to anyone interested.

-Mark Talluto


>
> I was able to trick their crippled version of the Google engine into
> providing useful results for 'plst', but for the 'icns' resources 
> needed to
> complete an OS X delivery I could find only header info, but no tools or
> other practical advice for anyone not using SaRez.
>