Along these lines, I made an alias to one of my project files that was 48K.
The alias is 668 K. W T F? What's the point of aliases if they are this fat? On Apr 15, 2012, at 8:57 AM, Michael Hall wrote: > > On Apr 15, 2012, at 7:36 AM, Shane Stanley wrote: > >> On 15/04/2012, at 9:23 PM, Michael Hall wrote: >> >>> If your criteria is best variety of icons, then current could be argued >>> buggy since it only has one icon resource to the Finder's two. >> >> But the Finder really only has one, twice. > >> the Finder has *two* such ‘icns’ resources; one with ID -16496 and one with >> ID -16455. The two ‘icns’ resources appear to be identical, > > Ah, I had remembered the two different id's but missed that the resources > appear identical. If true possibly a bug. > A little more checking... > > http://static.userland.com/Iowa/sourceListings/macbirdSource/Frontier%20SDK%204.1b1/Toolkits/Applet%20Toolkit/appletfilealias.c.html > > #define kCustomAliasIconID -16496 > > Mention of -16545 here for example > http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/cocoa/15858-setting-file-icon.html > > Again this seems to relate to custom icon id's so it is still possibly a > duplicate bug. But you also still might have to do more digging to be sure > having both id's doesn't have some special meaning to the Finder that is > arguably non-buggy? Maybe some situation where having both id's means the > Finder will correctly use the right icon where without the second one it > wouldn't. Possibly an archaic situation so the newer code can omit it but the > Finder has never been updated to change the archaic behavior? But it might > take more verifying to be sure of which. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/zav%40mac.com > > This email sent to z...@mac.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
