Re: Util to put icon files into a file's resource fork ?

[madsci@tribeca.ios.com (Erick Dietrich)]

In article <3253B887.794B@sophia.inria.fr>, Frederic Devernay
<Frederic.Devernay@sophia.inria.fr> wrote:

> IIGS users,
> I'm tired of having all these icon files in the "icons" folder of my HD,
> is there a utility to put the icons into a program's resource fork ? I
> think System 6 handles these... (maybe I'm wrong)


I've been wondering this myself lately.  It seems like its possible.  Is
there anything special by way of code that tells the Finder to look into a
rescource fork to find an rIcon or does the Finder just look?  Does the
GS/OS Finder have bundle bits like Macintosh System X? (I refuse to call
it MacOS).

I'm pretty sure there exists an Icon editor that does rIcons too.  Which
is it?  I have IconEd and DIcEd, am I missing a feature?  

Of course, we'd still need icon files for 8-bit stuff.

Nother question.  I've made up better looking generic folder, .SYS ans
.SYS16 icons.  I want the finder to use these when it can't find a custom
file.  However, it seems no matter what I call the file, (which is
System.Icons), wether I make it a.System.Icons (to make it first) or
z.System.Icons, or if I leave it as it is, the finder substitutes the
generic icon for ALL files, and kills the custom ones.  What am I doind
wrong?

Also, whats the ~best~ Rescource editor?  I'm looking for something like
ResEdit.  The main thing I need is a rSound and an rIcon editor, or at
least the ability to cut and paste those rescources in and out of files.

-Erick