Hello all,
I'm writing an art program for OSX, and I have a custom file format for saving its documents. I'd like to include an image preview as the icon for the documents. I found one way of doing this using the following sh script:
But three of those tools are included with the developer tools (Rez, SetFile, DeRez), and I want to deploy this on systems that don't have the tools installed. Has anyone done this before? I have no problem saving out a png or jpg file of the image, but I'm not sure how to set that to be the icon for my document without using the above mentioned developer tools . Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Ken
I'm writing an art program for OSX, and I have a custom file format for saving its documents. I'd like to include an image preview as the icon for the documents. I found one way of doing this using the following sh script:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Sets an icon on file or directory
# Usage setIcon.sh iconimage.jpg /path/to/[file|folder]
iconSource=$1
iconDestination=$2
icon=/tmp/`basename $iconSource`
rsrc=/tmp/icon.rsrc
echo make icon from $1 for file $2
# Create icon from the iconSource
cp $iconSource $icon
# Add icon to image file, meaning use itself as the icon
sips -i $icon && echo "sips was successful"
# Take that icon and put it into a rsrc file
derezResult=-1
DeRez -only icns ${icon} | tee ${rsrc} && derezResult=0
echo $derezResult
# Apply the rsrc file to
SetFile -a C $iconDestination && echo "Setfile was successful"
if [ -f $iconDestination ]; then
# Destination is a file
Rez -append $rsrc -o $iconDestination && echo "append was successful"
elif [ -d $iconDestination ]; then
# Destination is a directory
# Create the magical Icon\r file
touch $iconDestination/$'Icon\r'
Rez -append $rsrc -o $iconDestination/Icon?
SetFile -a V $iconDestination/Icon?
fiBut three of those tools are included with the developer tools (Rez, SetFile, DeRez), and I want to deploy this on systems that don't have the tools installed. Has anyone done this before? I have no problem saving out a png or jpg file of the image, but I'm not sure how to set that to be the icon for my document without using the above mentioned developer tools . Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
Ken
