OS X Standalone Question Rerun

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On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 09:24 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> 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....


Icon Composer, available in the developer download, does the trick.  I 
then use Graphic Converter to transfer the resource it creates over to 
the standalone.

-Mark Talluto