[Pythonmac-SIG] Making icons

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jan 11, 2004, at 3:39 PM, Konrad Hinsen wrote:

> On 11.01.2004, at 16:56, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> Save as tiff(s), drag into Icon Composer (an application that ships 
>> with Developer Tools or Xcode, whatever you happen to call it).
>>
> Thanks, that's exactly what I needed. BTW, it takes PNG as well, so it 
> it rather straightforward to convert Linux icons.

 From what I remember, it does a better job with transparency when 
you're using tiffs.  Tiff is basically the native raster image format 
for OS X (at least in Cocoa).

> The icon name for Python applets (PythonApplet.icns) seems to be 
> hardcoded somewhere, changing the name in Info.plist is not sufficient 
> to make the Finder use some other icon. I guess I am starting to 
> explore the dark sides of MacOS...

Make a copy of the bundle after you change Info.plist or whatever.. 
Finder caches this, you're probably hitting cache.  Are applets really 
what you want?  Do they actually work?  I think most people are using 
bundlebuilder (I have no experience with BuildApplet).

-bob
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