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- From: jonh@pogo.wv.tek.com (Jon Howell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
- Subject: Re: RE-Darned Icons...
- Message-ID: <jonh-130892100000@jonh.wv.tek.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 17:00:04 GMT
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- Sender: nobody@pogo.wv.tek.com
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- Organization: Tektronix
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- > >>Are you selecting the icon's picture (while in the editor) with the
- > >>'marquee' and then copying?
- >
- > Actually, that was the <second> thing i'd tried...but the problem is it
- > pastes the bitmap, sans mask...this doesn't look very good on my desktop...a
- > vague, transparent icon...
-
- The solution to that problem is to make sure your icon is surrounded by
- colors
- which are below the 50% threshhold. (Apple recommends that icons have a
- black
- boundary, and I agree, but mine often don't. :v)
-
- In the future, I'd like to see the Info box accept (somehow) a whole cicn
- (Hmm -- do cicns have masks built in, or do they go off and use another
- rsrc?) pasted in, so I can do the masks myself.
-
- --Jon
-
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- jonh@pogo.wv.tek.com Jon Howell
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