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Path: ns-mx!uunet!wupost!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!2frjbits From: 2frjbits@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Preston Park) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: System 6 Icons question Message-ID: <1992Mar30.150840.38899@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 30 Mar 92 21:08:40 GMT Organization: Macrocosm BBS 913-841-9446 Lines: 12 Is there anyway to change a data-files Icon once it's been mapped to an application? I mean the picture, not the other stuff which I figured out. I edited my old Icons to make related icons visually related, but the old file icons stayed the same (visually). I'll keep trying and digging through what docs I have (hope this isn't something really stupid I'm doing wrong). -- | Preston Park |____________________________________________________________ | 1:280/108 | 2frjbits@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu | ppark@tesla.ece.ukans.edu |P.| |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |It merely pleases me to behave in a certain way to what appears to be a cat.| | -- The ruler of the Universe | Path: ns-mx!uunet!wupost!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!2frjbits From: 2frjbits@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Preston Park) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: System 6 Icons question Message-ID: <1992Mar30.152620.38903@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 30 Mar 92 21:26:19 GMT References: <1992Mar30.150840.38899@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Organization: Macrocosm BBS 913-841-9446 Lines: 16 In article <1992Mar30.150840.38899@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>, 2frjbits@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Preston Park) writes: > Is there anyway to change a data-files Icon once it's been mapped to an > application? I mean the picture, not the other stuff which I figured out. I Never mind, I figured it out! Way cool Andy & Dave! Just delete the FTypes files, and then, rather than crashing when you reboot, it puts you in that mini-launcher and tells you what it needs to run the finder. Use FileMgr to copy the original FTypes file from the System.Disk, and launch the finder. Wow, intelligent engineering at Apple. Never thought I'd see any of that that System 7 thing : ) -- | Preston Park |____________________________________________________________ | 1:280/108 | 2frjbits@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu | ppark@tesla.ece.ukans.edu |P.| |----------------------------------------------------------------------------| |It merely pleases me to behave in a certain way to what appears to be a cat.| | -- The ruler of the Universe | Path: ns-mx!uunet!decwrl!netcomsv!satyr!apple!dlyons From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David A Lyons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: System 6 Icons question Message-ID: <64551@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 31 Mar 92 06:43:43 GMT References: <1992Mar30.150840.38899@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1992Mar30.152620.38903@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 29 In article <1992Mar30.152620.38903@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2frjbits@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Preston Park) writes: >> Is there anyway to change a data-files Icon once it's been mapped to an >> application? I mean the picture, not the other stuff which I figured out. I >Never mind, I figured it out! Way cool Andy & Dave! Just delete the FTypes >files, and then, rather than crashing when you reboot, it puts you in that >mini-launcher and tells you what it needs to run the finder. Use FileMgr >to copy the original FTypes file from the System.Disk, and launch the finder. >Wow, intelligent engineering at Apple. Never thought I'd see any of that >that System 7 thing : ) Well...I don't understand what happened when you did that (maybe the Finder searched your Icons folders in a different order & accidentally got the effect you wanted). Anyway, icon pictures are not stored in FType.Apple--the Filetype Descriptor files only have the *names* of various kinds of files. The real solution to punting stale icon information, or document-to-app mapping information, is to throw out the Desktop file (inside the Icons folder) on the disk in question (the disk containing the application, or the startup disk, or both). -- David A. Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems Apple II System Software Engineer | P.O. Box 875 America Online: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie:DAVE.LYONS CompuServe:72177,3233 Internet:dlyons@apple.com My opinions are my own, not Apple's. Path: ns-mx!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!darkstar!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (unknown user) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: System 6 & AWGS (Bugs?) Message-ID: <31715@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 31 Mar 92 08:21:43 GMT References: <1992Mar30.150348.38898@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Sender: usenet@darkstar.ucsc.edu Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz; Open Access Computing Lines: 32 In article <1992Mar30.150348.38898@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> 2frjbits@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Preston Park) writes: >Anyway, the one wierd thing is that sometimes when I hold down >control-option-shift and double-click on an application (I can never keep track >of the modifier to override the finder.data write) it opens the boot partition >on my HD rather than running the application (which is on another partition). >Is it supposed to do that? Do you mean it brings up a Standard File dialog? If so, I know what you're talking about. It is trying to let you re-map an icon to a different application. For example, by default double-clicking on a text file runs Teach, the neato_cool_keen editor included in System 6. (Lane Roath has a cool fast editor that's very similar but more feature- packed.. I'm just used to Teach). But anyway, in this example, you could option-doubleclick on a text file and then find Appleworks GS. Then from now on when you doubleclick on a text file, it will run Appleworks GS. >Also, there is a dialogue that comes up and says "The modem port is not >selected in the control panel" whenever I run AWGS under System 6. This gets >pretty annoying since I run Appleshare from the modem port. Is there something >I can do to keep it from spitting at me all the time? Annoying, huh? I actually didn't know it only happened with System 6 (seems strange, if you used Appleshare from the modem port previously, that it didn't also give you the message). Presumably there's nothing you can do about it except patch the program or try running Appleshare from the printer port instead. -- /unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu Apple IIGS Forever!\ |WANT to get INFOCOM GAMES RERELEASED | Also will pass on -UNIX GS- | \& ULTIMA VI GS written? ---mail me | & CHEAP CD info - mail me / Path: ns-mx!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news From: hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Important Stuff on System 6 ICONS... Keywords: System 6, Icons, Important information Message-ID: <1992Apr3.221409.24559@ctr.columbia.edu> Date: 3 Apr 92 22:14:09 GMT Sender: news@ctr.columbia.edu (The Daily Lose) Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 24 Ok, a lot of questions have been asked about System 6 Icons, and to possibly save Dave and Andy a lot of repeatidly asked questions about it, I will take a moment to answer it. There are now TWO ways to represent icons in System 6. The old way of having them in icon files in the system folder still exists, but there are now the new way of storing the icons in the Finder's resource fork. These are known as rIcons, and all the old finder icons and finder icons.x icons have been represented in this manner. But Andy has given priority of the rIcons over the old icon files, so even if you put a new "font file" icon or "trash can" icon in the icon folder, it will be ignored. As I had stated a little earlier, right now, only Genesys can modify rIcon files, and it has next to nill support of converting icons from icon files into rIcons (or at least I couldn't figure out how). Maybe after Dave gets the System 6 specs out, he might update his icon editor for the resource formats too.. | Hal Bouma | Send mail to: HBouma@Macalstr.edu | | Macalester College, St. Paul, MN. | and HBouma@Macalstr.Bitnet | \ Things that make you go Hmmm: System 6, GNO, DreamGrafix, NCS/DSP card / \ Coming sometime this decade for the //GS : NBA! (GNO compatible too!) / \ Drop by and say hi to us anytime on the #AppleIIGS channel on IRC!! / Path: ns-mx!uunet!decwrl!claris!apple!shrinkit From: shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: System 6 Icons question Message-ID: <64985@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 7 Apr 92 20:42:31 GMT References: <1992Apr6.173230.453@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 14 In article <1992Apr6.173230.453@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bp664@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Grover Thomas) writes: >Hey, how do I remove the application map from a particular icon. >Lets say I boo-boo'd and I mapped the icon to the wrong app?? You have to remove the "Desktop" file in your ICONS folder (probably on your boot drive). The file is invisible, so you'll have to turn "Hide invisible files" off. andy -- Andy Nicholas GEnie & America-Online: shrinkit Apple Computer, Inc. InterNET: shrinkit@apple.com