Icon queries

[Graham Samuel]

I'm reaching the stage with my first Revo development of trying to 
build a saleable version of the app - in fact three versions, Mac 
OS9, Mac OSX and Windows. I am gradually solving various problems. 
The next big thing is the Icon Question. When I used to develop using 
SuperCard on pre-X Macs, I learned just enough about icons and 
ResEdit to create a family (is this the right word?) of icons for 
each of my apps, and I used the SC StandaloneMaker tool to plug them 
into my app. Each icon has to be a family and not just a single image 
because you need coloured ones, black and white ones, dimmed ones, 
small ones etc to provide the OS with all the variations it needs. I 
never completely understood how to create a complete family in 
ResEdit because I never found any kind of account of the way Mac 
icons work, but somehow I got it to work.

Now with RR, I am faced with having to create three different icon 
sets, all obeying rules I know absolutely nothing about and all 
requiring construction tools I've never even heard of (except perhaps 
ResEdit, but this may no longer be relevant).

I have searched the usual RR sources, and there is a huge wealth of 
icon-related discussion in the archive, but so far I haven't come 
across any kind of cross-platform icon cookbook that essentially 
tells me the shortest route to custom icons for apps and their 
documents on each platform. Have I missed it? I hope not, since I 
would be a woefully bad author of such a thing myself... if anyone 
can help, please tell the list!

TIA

Graham
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          Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK & France