retrieving OS X icons?

[RCS]

There does not seem to be a mechanism in MetaCard for what (I think) you
want to do. My work around has been to actually have a 'set' of standard
filetype icons in the stack (for .pdf,.jpg,.doc,?,etc), and discern which
one to display by getting either the extension or the filetype. I did this
for an installer maker where I had to create a hierarchical list of folders
and files...the performance was fine, so I stuck with this method.

Let me know if there is a better way...

JR

> Message: 12
> Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 10:28:15 -0500
> From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> Organization: HyperActive Software
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: retrieving OS X icons?
> Reply-To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
>
> On 5/5/03 3:39 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to extract image datafrom OS X icon files in a way that's
> > displayable in MC?
> >
>
> Do you mean, read the icons via a script on the fly? Or do you mean just
> extract the icons once during development for use in a stack? The second
> is pretty easy to do with the various icon tools available.
>
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> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com