application icon for OS X

[Leston Drake]

Frank,

Thanks for the detailed information. I do have an OS X machine, so I'll 
give Iconographer a try.

At 12:44 PM 11/30/2004, you wrote:
>Mac OS X uses a special icon format which is different from that used by 
>Windows.  You will need to find a program capable of producing Mac OS X 
>icon files, which generally have an extension of .icns.  I use 
>Iconographer ($15 shareware), but of course that only runs on OS X, so 
>unless you have an OS X machine to run it on, you may need to seek out 
>another solution.
>
>Iconographer can open and save OS X icons, Classic Mac icons, and Windows 
>icons.  It can also import and export several image file formats.
>
>It may also interest you to know that Mac OS X icons exist in several 
>sizes (per icon), ranging from 12x12 to 128x128.  Mac OS X icons also 
>exist in several bit-depths, ranging from 1-bit mono to 32-bit color.
>
>Iconographer can take one of the sizes and use it to generate the others, 
>and other icon editors should have this capability as well; however, 
>sometimes the process of scaling the icons (not to mention generating 
>masks) results in mistakes, so you should always double-check the masks 
>and icon members to be sure they were generated correctly.
>
>Iconographer is located at:
>
>http://www.mscape.com/products/iconographer.html
>
>
>If you are limited to the Windows platform, unfortunately there are 
>Windows programs for converting Mac icons to Windows, but I have not yet 
>seen one for doing the reverse.  Mac programs exist to convert both ways.
>
>
>On Nov 30, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Leston Drake wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Can someone tell me the size, bit depth, and file type of an application 
>>icon for OSX?
>>
>>I've got several .ICO files that I'm using on Win32, but they don't seem 
>>to work when I select them in the Standalone Builder.
>>
>>TIA!
>>
>>
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