preserve custom folder icons in OSX

[Ken Ray]

On 12/1/08 2:24 AM, "Scott Morrow" <scott at elementarysoftware.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to add, as part of an installer app, the ability to
> reproduce any original custom folder icons in OSX (and perhaps OS9 as
> I think it uses the same mechanism).  In other words, I would like to
> be able to suck up the custom folder icon information along with
> everything else so that it can be restored when the folder is spit out
> elsewhere.

Can you just zip up the folder? That may keep the custom icon intact.

> I can't seem to touch or otherwise get a peek at the resource inside
> the icon\r file without first renaming it to something without the
> carriage return.

Yeah, I couldn't either from inside Rev - I can only work with it in the
shell().


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/