OS X Application icon corrupted by V3 standalone maker?

Phil Jimmieson phil at liverpool.ac.uk
Thu Sep 25 04:48:58 EDT 2008


Hi folks,
I've just started using Rev version 3 (with GLX2) to make standalones  
for OS X and Windows, and noticed that on OS X my custom application  
icon didn't appear. At first I thought it was the usual lazy Finder  
scenario where you had to zip and unzip the file or one of the other  
magic invocations to get the icon recognised, but nothing worked. I  
then opened up the App package and found that the "Revolution.icns"  
file which contains the icon for the App would not open with Preview -  
it reported the file as being damaged or in the wrong format. Checking  
with an App created with Rev 2.9, the same icns file there opens ok.  
My source custom icns file opens ok so it looks like something is  
corrupting it when its being copied into the package.
Has anyone else seen this?
As a workaround, I've copied my custom icns file by hand and replaced  
the corrupted one in the package (and that works ok), but if the  
standalone maker is corrupting it I will report it as a bug.

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