OSX & Win icons

[Sarah Reichelt]

> Say, I'm getting ready to deploy an application to OSX and Windows, and
> one of the issues is the application icon. I've read Chipp's and Ken's
> tutorials and downloaded IconBuilder, which looks great accept for two
> things - it's a bit expensive and it won't run on my OS 10.2.8 machine
> (needs 10.3.9).
>
> I did find a $20 shareware program called "Export Icon Plug-in 1.7" for
> Photoshop - does anyone have any experience with that? It seemed to work
> on all but the largest size (turned the background solid black). I also
> downloaded QTam or windows. It generates a Windows .ICO, but when I try
> to use it in Rev (I have 2.2.1 Enterprise) I get the message that "the
> file does not include 8 required image formats" and it lists various
> sizes and formats. I haven't paid the shareware fee yet - want to make
> sure it'll do what I need. The instructions are a bit sparse as well. I
> looks like the largest image size it will import is 48x48.
>

Hi Marty,

I use Iconographer on OS X, which makes the icons for both Mac & Windows.
The QTam one made icons in the old format, but Rev 2.something changed
to using higher quality Windows icons, so it no longer does the job.

Regards,
Sarah