Icons and the Image Library

[JonathanC at ag.nsw.gov.au]

Sorry, another (basic) series of questions...

I don't understand how icons work in Revolution.
I converted a HyperCard stack (a copy of "Home", actually) to Rev. Most of 
the (black-and-white) icons seemed to transfer OK, so I tried to get them 
into my custom library ("My Library") but I couldn't work out how to do it 
- short of doing a screenshot, opening it in Photoshop, saving each icon 
as a separate GIF file and then importing them one by one with the "Import 
File..."button (!).

I thought if I selected a button with a custom icon while the "Library" 
window was open and then clicked "Import Selected", it would work, but I 
get an error message: "There are no images in the selection". (What's the 
difference between an image and an icon?)

I double-click the button - so that the Inspector window opens - and 
choose "Icons & Border". Next to "Icon" is a number (21444) which I assume 
is the icon's ID. Clicking on the little "magic wand" next to it brings up 
a dialog box, which looks very much like the Images tab of the Library 
window. And there are the icons (well, most of them; some of them just 
appear as rows of dots ... ?). But these icons don't appear anywhere in 
the Library window.

What am I missing? Is there an "easy" way of copying icons? Sorry to be 
harking back to HyperCard again, but in HC you could just copy a button in 
one stack and (if the icon resource was in that stack) paste it into 
another stack and the icon resource would be copied as well. Then of 
course there was Resource Mover.(Incidentally,  I tried Sarah Reichelt's 
"ResourceCopier.rev" but the icons don't appear as resources - which 
doesn't really surprise me, I guess.)

Thanks again.

Jonathan Cooper

Manager of Information / Website
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au