On 17 Nov 2012, at 04:09, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote:

> On Nov 16, 2012, at 9:20 PM, Kyle Sluder wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 16, 2012, at 6:56 PM, John Brownie <john_brow...@sil.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> If I use TISGetInputSourceProperty to get the kTISPropertyIconImageURL 
>>> property of a keyboard layout, it returns nil, so I get the 
>>> kTISPropertyIconRef property, which gives me an IconRef. I can turn that 
>>> into an NSImage with -initWithIconRef, but what I really want to do is to 
>>> write out a file in the .icns format. I have not been able to find 
>>> documentation on how to do that step. Lack of internet access has also 
>>> complicated things, but a search just now didn't throw up anything that 
>>> looked helpful.
>> 
>> Look into CGImageDestination (aka ImageIO). If that doesn't help, you might 
>> be stuck using the old Carbon resource manager functions.
> 
> You don't need the Resource Manager.  There's the Icon Family API for this: 
> SetIconFamilyData().
> 
> You should be aware that a bug was introduced to Snow Leopard with its last 
> major update (10.6.8), such that the CGImageDestination API produces corrupt 
> ICNS files.  So, if you are maintaining compatibility with that version of 
> the OS, you probably want to use the Icon Family API instead, even though 
> it's obsolete and deprecated.

Have a radar number we can dupe?


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