application icon not appearing in OSX

[J. Landman Gay]

Peter Brigham wrote:
> So before I create my standalone, I choose the icon file I want to be 
> assigned to my app in the standalone builder settings -- a 128x128 png 
> file -- and then build the standalone. It appears after the build with a 
> generic app icon. I understand that the standalone builder fails to 
> "touch" the app to notify the Finder that the icon has been changed to a 
> custom icon. Somewhere recently on this list I read that zipping then 
> unzipping it will force the Finder to look at the icon in the bundle, 
> but when I do this I still have the generic icon on the newly-unzipped app.

I don't think this is the "touch" issue. OS X icon files are actually 
composites of several images at different sizes and bit depths, which 
are stored together in a specially crafted .icns file. Mac OS X 
Developer Tools has a utility called "Icon Composer" that is easy to use 
and produces basic .icns files. Photoshop can also produce them (Chipp 
has a tutorial on it somewhere on his site, maybe he'll provide a link.) 
Graphic Converter can make them too.

Windows requires a similar kind of composite file which most Windows 
icon programs can produce.

For either OS, point the standalone builder to the composite file.

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