[Pythonmac-SIG] Making icons

[Konrad Hinsen]

On 11.01.2004, at 21:49, Bob Ippolito wrote:

>> 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).
>
It looked simpler, and good enough for my job. My applications are 
really trivial (Python-wise), though very convenient: small scripts 
that make Emacs and GIMP accessible as if they were proper 
applications. I can now put them into the dock and drag files into them 
:-)

Bundlebuilder is my next exploration project.

Konrad.