At 3:42 PM -0600 18/2/2000, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote:
>I'm unable to get a MetaCard standalone to show a custom icon in the Mac
>Finder. I've done this in the past without any problem, but this one
>won't go. I've spent all day rebuilding my desktop, both with the
>built-in command keys on startup and with TechTool.
>
>Here are the ResEdit particulars in the standalone:
>
>BNDL resource: (id 128)
> Signature: SpAd
> FREF: Local = 0 Res ID = 128
> Finder icons: Local = 0 Res ID = 128
>
>FREF resource: (id 128)
> File type: APPL
> Icon local ID = 0
>
>All 6 icon resources have one icon each, of ID 128
>There is an owner resource, created by ResEdit, of type "SpAd"
>
>Unless I'm missing something, this should work. The standalone was
>created with the final version of 2.3 downloaded yesterday. I noticed
>that when the standalone was first built, before I changed any of the
>resources, it did not display the MetaCard icon either; standalones
>built under 2.x used to show the MC icon immediately after the build.
>
>Can anyone pinpoint what's wrong?
Hi Jacqueline
Are the finder flags set appropriately? In ResEdit, choose Get
File/Folder info ...
I think the ones that should be checked are Has BNDL and Inited.
Cheers
Dave Cragg
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