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Article #30159Re: Hard Disk Icon
From: Larry Rosenstein
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1988 17:13
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 1988 17:13
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In article <698@ttrdf.UUCP> fjo@ttrdf.UUCP (Frank Owen ) writes:
>Installer/Formatter program provided by the manufacturer. The only way to
>change the icon would be to search for data that "looks like" the icon
>either in the DRVR resource in the Installer/Formatter program or the
There is an INIT floating around called FaceLift that changes the icon. (It
was one of the entries in the hack contest at MacHack '88 and will be
described in the next issue of MacTutor.)
It doesn't change the driver on the disk, but instead intercepts the Control
call that the Finder makes to find out the icon, and substitutes the new
icon instead. (Earlier versions made the control call and stuffed a new
icon into the driver AFTER it was loaded into RAM. This worked for all but
ROM-based drivers.)
It picks the icon by matching up the name of the disk with the name of the
icon, so each disk can have a different icon.
Larry Rosenstein, Object Specialist
Apple Computer, Inc. 20525 Mariani Ave, MS 27-AJ Cupertino, CA 95014
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!amdahl!nsc!voder!apple!lsr From: lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hard Disk Icon Message-ID: <13952@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 14 Jul 88 17:13:47 GMT References: <10623@oberon.USC.EDU> <698@ttrdf.UUCP> Reply-To: lsr@apple.apple.com.UUCP (Larry Rosenstein) Organization: Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer Lines: 22