Way to change icon of alias?

[Ken Ray]

Well, in OS 9, the "custom icon" that was inserted by copy-paste had a
resource ID of -16455. Perhaps this stands in OS X?

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/


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> I have a need to make an alias of an application, and then 
> change the ICON  
> of that ALIAS to a different icon.  I'm not sure how to do that via  
> Revolution.  This is for Mac OS X.  Let's say for example 
> that I make  an alias of 
> "Internet Connect", and I put it on the desktop via  
> Applescript.  Let's say I also 
> have another file which has the good icon on  it, and I want 
> to "transfer" it 
> to the ALIAS of Internet Connect.  If I  were doing this by 
> hand, I'd just 
> hit Command-I (Get Info), and copy-paste the  icon between 
> the files.  Any way 
> to do that via Transcript or  Applescript? 
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