Getting generic OSX icon in standalone

[graham samuel]

I've been making a Standalone on OSX Tiger (10.2.4). I believe I have  
a well-formed icon - a .icns file made with Iconographer, including  
the largest size version (128x128). I can make the Standalone easily  
enough, and when I put it in the Applications folder, I get the  
proper icon; but if I leave the app in another folder outside  
Applications, I get the Apple generic icon for an application, and  
the documents for this app also get a (different) generic icon rather  
than the one I designed - although I can see versions of the doc icon  
in file dialogs within the application. Is this what's supposed to  
happen? The only item I got when I searched for this issue in the  
list archive was an inconclusive conversation between John and Derek  
Bump, back in January of this year.

Can anyone help?

Graham


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Graham Samuel / The Living Fossil Co. / UK and France