Extracting Resources from MacOS X Resource Files

[Dave]

On 22 Jan 2009, at 16:18, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Dave wrote:
>
>> I just want to be able to access this rsrc file to get an icns  
>> file, then access the icns file to get the rendered version of the  
>> Icon at a given resolution.
>
> If it is just a one-time thing to extract particular icons, you  
> could save a lot of time by just using Graphic Converter. It will  
> extract all the icons for you and save them to disk.

GC will open .icns files, but not MacOS X .rsrc files, so I'd still  
need a way to get the .icns resources into separate files.

But , no, unfortunately I want to be able to obtain the rendered icon  
from a .icns file and this file is stored on a removable volume. When  
the volume is mounted, I want to be able to grab the icon from the  
file on the volume.

Is there really no way to access MacOS X .rsrc (theme) files under  
RunRev or a way get an Icon and a rendered image?

All the Best
Dave