Getting an applications icon under OSX

Jeanne A. E. DeVoto revolution at jaedworks.com
Sun Jun 6 02:07:53 EDT 2004


At 9:31 AM +1000 6/4/2004, Terry Judd wrote:
>Is there any way of capturing/extracting an applications icon from 
>within Rev (via Applescript maybe?). I'd like to associate an apps 
>icon with its name in a launcher-style thing I'm building (apps are 
>listed dynamically) but have no idea how to go about it. Ideas?

Hmmm. For Mach-O (packaged) apps, I think you may be out of luck, 
because the icon format isn't one that Rev reads natively.

(Given an external, you could examine the package, find the icon, and 
either display it or convert it to PNG or some other Rev-friendly 
format.)
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jeanne a. e. devoto ~ jaed at jaedworks.com
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