Desktop Document Icons on the Mac

Ray Horsley ray at linkitonline.com
Thu Mar 27 18:13:00 EST 2003


I've made my own stand alone using Metacard's Standalone Builder, and it
runs the stacks.  The stand alone (my app) shows my own custom icon, but the
stacks don't show theirs.

on 3/27/03 11:48 AM, Shari at gypsyware at earthlink.net wrote:

>> I recently followed Shari's many notes with a lot of users regarding icons
>> in Windows.  Now I'm having a similar problem on the Mac.  I've fooled with
>> ResEdit and gotten document icons of my stacks to show up right, but I've
>> really never understood it well.  Now for some reason my stacks are showing
>> up as generic icons.  I've run Norton, rebuilt the desktop file multiple
>> times, and even defragmented the whole hard disk, but nothing is bringing
>> back the custom icons I originally had from my stacks.  Does anybody have
>> any direction they can provide on this?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Ray Horsley
> 
> Are you using any standalones?  Does a standalone run the stacks, or
> does Metacard?
> 
> Or is it that you want stacks with no standalones, some showing the
> Metacard icon, and some showing a Custom icon?
> 
> Shari C




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