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- From: jelmore@nyx.cs.du.edu (John Elmore)
- Subject: Re: Where are folder icons stored?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.075726.4050@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 07:57:26 GMT
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- In article <C1E7AL.49t@wolves.Durham.NC.US> ggw@wolves.durham.nc.us writes:
- >I've checked IM I-VI, and there doesn't seem to be an easy answer.
- >
- >I made a custom icon for my System Folder (the blessed folder) using
- >ResEdit, and cut and paste and it looks okay, except that the system
- >seems to have picked up the icl4 icon rather than the icl8 icon to use.
- >
- >I see in IMM VI that file custom icons are stored in the resouce fork
- >with a particular resouce ID number, but it doesn't say boo about where
- >the picture or Icon resources are kept for folders!
- >
- >Since folders are also files (generally) there is obviously some way for
- >the system itself to potentially open the resouce fork of a folder file,
- >but ResEdit doesn't seem to want to play with the custom icons attached
- >to a folder (heck, it won't even admit to haveing any concept of the
- >folder being a file! Recent version 2.1.?)
- >
- >I've played around a bit with Norton Disk Editor and SUM II (its
- >predecessor) and can't seem to locate the bit patterns or resources on
- >disk even! (I know the file # for the folder file, but the disk
- >editors don't provide a linkage to the blocks of the file from the file
- >definition!
- >
- >So, are the custom Icons for a folder stored in the resouce fork of the
- >folder file? Are they stored in the desktop databases? I'm sure they
- >are not in System or Finder!
-
- I'll make it simple. The custom Icons for a folder, hard drive, disk, etc.
- are kept in invisible files called Icon. Go crazy.
-
- Jay (=
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