Hi all,
I'm supposed to be created some icon files for work
and I'm having problems finding the size requirements.
These icons are to be used on a PC but the example
sized file I need to actually locate is on a Mac. The
icon that I'm actually looking for isn't the standard
desktop/alias icon, its the little image in the bar at
the top of the window that has the window name/program
name in it. I don't now what this is called so my
terminology is not going to be of much help to anyone
so I hope I am describing this ok. Not all programs
have them, the ones I've noticed them in on this Mac
are Microsoft Word- a little word document icon
currently, there is an @ symbol on the Internet
Explorer bar, Image Ready has them on some of my files
and so on.
They're Small Icons, which are usually stored in a SICN resource. (In
that location of the title bar they're called a proxy icon, but
that's more referring to their purpose than what the icon actually
is).
What I need to do is locate one of these image files,
that go in the bar, and get the sizes for it so I can
try and find out why the icons I have made aren't
working. One keeps getting part of it cut off and then
is strecthed to make up for the cut off area. They're
all square icons, saved out in Graphics Converter as a
Windows icon file, a .ico file. Only one of them is
getting cropped and stretched when its being used even
though its the same dimensions and format as the
others. If I can just locate the file on the Mac, the
ones they sent from the PC are .exe files and I can't
open them, I can get a fair idea of what size it needs
to be because I'm guessing the microsoft programs all
have similar icon sizes for Mac OS and Windows.
If someone could tell me what the file extension for a
Mac icon in that top bar is then I should be able to
find it, but without the file extension or a name of
one of the icon files I don't stand a chance of
locating it any time in the next month.
Umm... Where is Graphic Converter getting the icons from that it's
saving out to the file?
Under OS 9 these things are typically stored in a resource file,
which might have a .rsrc extension (but of course OS 9 doesn't
require file extensions). But I'm confused as to whether you're
referring to OS 9 or OS X, and where you're getting the icons from in
the first place.
Under OS X they're probably in the .icns or the .rsrc file if it's a
Carbon or Classic app, or as .tif's in the package's Resources
folder, or in the .nib file which you can access with Project Builder
if you've got the developer tools installed.
Have fun,
Shay
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