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Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs (SNN)

[vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

[7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

Has anyone hacked the VM yet to include scalable/better looking graphics for the dock icons on Mac OS X? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Mike Hales

Re: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

Michael Lucas Smith made a nice png http://tinyurl.com/5re8ce a while ago, but it doesn't have transparency, so I took it, and made a mask for it you can use. Open the visual.app app bundle, go to the resources folder and edit the MainIcons.icns file with Icon Composer (I think it installs with the xcode stuff). Drop vw.png on the 256 size box and let Icon Composer scale it for the rest. Switch to the mask tab, and drop mask.png on the 256 size box and let Icon Composer scale it for the rest. Save the file and you are done.

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On May 2, 2008, at 9:33 PM, Boris Popov wrote:

Has anyone hacked the VM yet to include scalable/better looking graphics for the dock icons on Mac OS X? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs (SNN)

Re: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

RE: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

Okay, that gets me half way there, as per attached, the application icon is now updated and looks great, thanks. The next issue is that minimized windows are using some other resource (probably in-image), but thought I'd ask again in case someone knows the answer before poking around myself. See attached dock.png for a screenshot.

Here is a link to the icns file if anyone cares and doesn't want to install Xcode,

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/6265/MainIcons.icns.zip

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Subject: Re: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

Michael Lucas Smith made a nice png http://tinyurl.com/5re8ce a while ago, but it doesn't have transparency, so I took it, and made a mask for it you can use. Open the visual.app app bundle, go to the resources folder and edit the MainIcons.icns file with Icon Composer (I think it installs with the xcode stuff). Drop vw.png on the 256 size box and let Icon Composer scale it for the rest. Switch to the mask tab, and drop mask.png on the 256 size box and let Icon Composer scale it for the rest. Save the file and you are done.

Mike

On May 2, 2008, at 9:33 PM, Boris Popov wrote:

        Has anyone hacked the VM yet to include scalable/better looking graphics for the dock icons on Mac OS X? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

        Thanks!

        -Boris

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Travis Griggs-3

Re: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

If you have an .icns file, you don't need anything more than the info
viewer on the .app file. Just drop the icns file on the little icon on
the top left of the file info viewer (cmd-i to open).

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Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs (SNN)

Re: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

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Re: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

Yea, I figured as much, but didn't have nicer icons to start with. If you have icns file you can also just copy and paste icons between info screens. Now I want to make minimized windows to look decent but am away for a few hours.

Cheers!

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Subject: Re: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

If you have an .icns file, you don't need anything more than the info
viewer on the .app file. Just drop the icns file on the little icon on
the top left of the file info viewer (cmd-i to open).

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Rob Vens-2

Re: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

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hah - I notice you have the same issue of inverted docked icons I reported earlier.

2008/5/3 Boris Popov <[hidden email]>:

Okay, that gets me half way there, as per attached, the application icon is now updated and looks great, thanks. The next issue is that minimized windows are using some other resource (probably in-image), but thought I'd ask again in case someone knows the answer before poking around myself. See attached dock.png for a screenshot.

Here is a link to the icns file if anyone cares and doesn't want to install Xcode,

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/6265/MainIcons.icns.zip

Thanks!

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Subject: Re: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

Michael Lucas Smith made a nice png http://tinyurl.com/5re8ce a while ago, but it doesn't have transparency, so I took it, and made a mask for it you can use. Open the visual.app app bundle, go to the resources folder and edit the MainIcons.icns file with Icon Composer (I think it installs with the xcode stuff). Drop vw.png on the 256 size box and let Icon Composer scale it for the rest. Switch to the mask tab, and drop mask.png on the 256 size box and let Icon Composer scale it for the rest. Save the file and you are done.

Mike

On May 2, 2008, at 9:33 PM, Boris Popov wrote:

        Has anyone hacked the VM yet to include scalable/better looking graphics for the dock icons on Mac OS X? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

        Thanks!

        -Boris

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Re: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

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It is using the icon installed on the window (upside down), which by default are crappy 32x32 icons. You can override Icon class>>defaultIcon and Icon class>>defaultIconMask then call Icon initialize and it will use your new icons. Or if your application installs its own, just install good ones. I have no idea why they're updside down though.

Mike

On May 3, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Boris Popov wrote:

The next issue is that minimized windows are using some other resource (probably in-image)

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Rob Vens-2

Re: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

Did exactly that - however I refrained from installing 128x128 (or other sized) icons on the window because I am not sure what that will do to my app on other platforms like windows which doesn't want anything bigger than 32x32. Does anybody know?
And I would like to have some response from Cincom about the upside down issue, at least an acknowledgement the issue is known and maybe AR-ed. Please? As it is it looks unprofessional.

2008/5/3 Mike Hales <[hidden email]>:

It is using the icon installed on the window (upside down), which by default are crappy 32x32 icons. You can override Icon class>>defaultIcon and Icon class>>defaultIconMask then call Icon initialize and it will use your new icons. Or if your application installs its own, just install good ones. I have no idea why they're updside down though.

Mike

On May 3, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Boris Popov wrote:
The next issue is that minimized windows are using some other resource (probably in-image)

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Andre Schnoor

Re: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

I would recommend to have minimized icons provided by Cocoa/Aqua automatically, which is more helpful for the user (see attached screenshot). In order to make this happen, simply do /not/ set an icon for the window:

ScheduledWindow>>icon: anIcon

"Set the icon for the receiver to be anIcon."

Screen default rendererName == #MacOSX

ifTrue:[ ^self ]. "Let OSX create the image itself"

icon := anIcon.

super icon: anIcon

Enjoy.

Andre

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Boris Popov, DeepCove Labs (SNN)

Re: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

Andre,

This is exactly the kind of fix I was looking for, only makes me wonder how such a simple change wouldn't already be in base and make Mac experience so much nicer together with a good looking VM icon.

Again, thanks Andre, Travis, Mike, Rob and all others who had helped me along.

Cheers!

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From: [hidden email] on behalf of Andre Schnoor
Sent: Sun 5/4/2008 4:56 AM
To: Rob Vens
Cc: VW NC
Subject: Re: [vwnc] [7.6][MacOSX] Better dock icons?

ScheduledWindow>>icon: anIcon

"Set the icon for the receiver to be anIcon."

Screen default rendererName == #MacOSX

ifTrue:[ ^self ]. "Let OSX create the image itself"

icon := anIcon.

super icon: anIcon

Enjoy.

Andre

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