Icon queries

[Graham Samuel]

OnSun, 30 Mar 2003 14:38:51 -0500, Ken Norris <pixelbird at interisland.net>
>  wrote:
>
>>  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!
>----------
>Well, you probably saw it but didn't quite believe it (because it's so
>simple and easy to deal with).
>
>Icons are images, the same as all other images. You just assign the image
>you want to a transparent button, for whatever hilite type you wish. I'm
>sorry to disappoint you if you were expecting something more complicated,
>but that's really about all there is it.
>
>Have fun ;+)

Ken, thanks, but I know icons are images. However I'm trying to 
attach appropriate families of icons to my standalone and its 
documents on the various platforms, so that (for example) the user 
sees a unique icon to double-click to start the app, either directly 
or by double-clicking an associated document. For me, buttons aren't 
involved at all. My problem is discovering what the OS expects in the 
way of icon families to represent the different types of display of 
an app or a file (in a list, on the desktop, in use, on a 16-color 
display etc.), and then how to create such families either in Rev or 
some other way.

Since writing my mail, I have downloaded the Mac shareware 
Iconographer from www.mscape.com. This looks like tremendous value, 
because it explains a lot about icon families, and it can even 
generate Windows-compatible application icons, including the newer 
standard used by Windows XP, as well as conventional Mac icons for 
pre-X and X. It's the nearest to a cookbook that I've come so far.

Graham
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