Re: Moving a GS icon to a Mac

[lunatic@netcom.com (Lunatic Johnathan Bruce E'Sex)]

In article <23gsa1$s2p@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> mjk31124@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Michael J. K.) writes:
>jimmys@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Jimmy Shaw) writes:
>
>>>Well while I don't know how to do this, I also don't know how to import
>>>Mac icons to the GS. Anyone out there that can give us the answer to
>>>these questions?
>
>>I believe there is a utility called _Resource.Spy_ thfor the GS at
>>allows you to examine the invisible _desktop_ file from Mac disks and
>>steal things like Icons from them.
>
>Although this works great for b&w icons, I was not able to steal any
>Mac System 7 COLOR icons.  Is there a way to do this?  Or perhaps there
>is a newer version of ResourceSpy that does this?
 
 
    |\|ope, Resource Spy hasn't been updated to handle colour icons.
 The only ways I've found to move colour icons from the Mac to the GS
 are the same ways as have been suggested for moving GS icons to the
 Mac:  1) Put 'em in a HyperCard stack and use HyperMover, or 2) Save
 'em in a GIF on the Mac and import that into the GS.  I've done a lot
 of the second method.  A suggestion, if you do try that: Put a bunch
 of the Mac icons into a 320x200 or 320x400 PICT file, and then
 convert that into a GIF.  The resulting icons will only be 320 mode,
 and you've have to edit them a lot to make them look good in 640 mode,
 but it does make things a little easier.  (I couldn't get any good
 results at all when trying to use 640x200 PICTs.  The aspect was
 screwed, the colours were way off, and it just generally came out
 ugly.)
 

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