OS X Standalone Question Rerun

Richard Gaskin ambassador at FourthWorld.com
Tue Jan 15 12:28:01 EST 2002


Simon Lord wrote:

> Yep. It was answered a few night ago by Mark Talluto
> 
> Snip:
> 
> This is more work.  One option is to download the latest
> developer tools from apples site.  Go to the developer section.
> It is a big download.  It will install all kinds of neat tools
> some of which you will need for icons and handling the menu you
> are talking about.
> 
> The data is stored in a resource called:  plst
> 1.  Use resedit in classic to get the current data from your
> standalone from this plst resource.  Copy it.
> 2.  Paste it into bbedit
> 3.  Open the file you save from bbedit into PropertyListEditor.
> Change the needed items from there.  You can edit it with an XML
> editor or the application from apple called PropertyListEditor
> (which comes with the developer tools download).  Save that for
> later use if you want.  There is a dump button in that app that
> will put the xml data into a blank field near the bottom of the
> screen.  Copy that.
> 4.  Go back to resedit and paste it over the old data that you
> copied originally.
> 5.  Save those changes in resedit.
> 6.  You are done.

Almost.  Now you need to make resources for the icons, and if I'm not
mistaken Apple's tool only makes icon files, but not resources....

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 Richard Gaskin 
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