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In article <186@usl.UUCP> jih@usl.UUCP (Juha I. Heinanen) writes:
>All copies of RMover that I have got don't display the cursor properly.
>Instead the watch symbol acts as a cursor.  Is that common to all of you 
>or has someone found a way to make the cursor show up?

The cheap solution is to invoke any desk accessory that uses the arrow cursor
(Calculator works fine) and then close it.  This turns the cursor into an 
arrow and leaves it.  The problem seems to be that RMover does not reset its
cursor when initiated (thus, the watch remains from the loading-from-disk
phase).  Anybody have a real fix for this one?

RMover has other problems.  One annoying one is that you can't double-click 
on a filename to open it, which is the case in every other such "Open..." 
dialogue box I've encountered.

The Resource Editor (ResEdit), even Version 0, seems to be superior to RMover.
The only problems I've encountered with ResEdit so far are that it is big
(96K), its font editor seems to be a little buggy, and there's no 
documentation.  If you haven't yet received ResEdit at your site, wait a bit;
it was posted quite recently.

ResEdit is powerful.  For example, you may have noticed that downloaded
applications all appear as "generic" application icons, but some have ICN#
resources buried within them.  I have figured out a way to make these "buried" 
icons appear, using ResEdit and Fedit (File and Volume editor), but I don't 
completely understand what I'm doing:

	Using RMover or ResEdit, open the application and verify that it has 
	one or more ICN# resources.  You can examine them to see what the 
	application's icon will look like, and even edit them (I think).
	
	Now, check the list of the application's resources for the one 
	unusual one.  With the exception of mFinder, all the applications 
	I've seen that have their own icons also have a resource with a name 
	I've never seen before.  Often this name is a person's name or the name
	of the program itself.  For example, the unusual resource in Missile 
	Command is RJUN.  In Mouse Stampede, it's MOUS.  If you open this 
	resource, it is a short bit of code (about 50 bytes).  

	Leave ResEdit and re-open the application with Fedit.  Choose "File
	Finder Attributes" from the "Display" menu.  Change the application's
	Creator to the name of the unusual resource, if necessary, and set the
	Bundle bit.  (I can't explain why you can't do this from within 
	ResEdit, but if it's possible I haven't found out how.)

	When you leave Fedit, the application should have its own icon.

Warning: do this on a scratch disk.  When I tried to activate the icon for
mFinder, I managed to trash the icons of every "generic" application on that
disk and create a disk that would invariably cause a "sad mac" if you tried to
boot from it.  As I said, I don't quite understand what I'm doing.

And now, a question: pending real documentation for ResEdit, can anyone post a
cookbook method for editing an application's existing icon?  So far, no changes
I have made with ResEdit in already-visible icons have had any effect.  I 
think the problem is that once the Finder has seen an application with an 
icon, it thinks that's always the application's icon...

David D. Levine  (...decvax!tektronix!orca!davidl)          [UUCP]
                 (orca!davidl.tektronix@csnet-relay.csnet)  [ARPA]

P.S.  Is there an ASCII chart desk accessory?  Sidekick for the IBM PC has 
      one, why doesn't the Mac?