How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

[Mike Bonner]

To get the icon is a 2 stage process. Do a shell call, designate a temporary
folder to put the extracted icons. Step 2 import them.

It puts all extracted icons into a designated folder.
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net> wrote:

> I think I see the problem now. There are lots of ways to get the icon
> manually, or with utilities, but suppose you're making a Dock utility for
> the user, and want them to pick any application to assign to a button, you
> would want LC to get the icon on the fly.
>
> Photo Booth's icons are stored in the file PhotoBooth.icns. Mail's is
> stored in app.icns. Photoshop has its ones in PS_AppIcons.icns. So it may
> end up being tricky to know what the icon file is called. You could look at
> all of the files in the resources folder, and see which ones are icns. If
> there's only one then that would be the right file.
>
> I'm not sure though how you would then extract the 32x32 icon from the set
> of images in the icns file.
>
>
>
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