thanks/danke Sjoerd,
those "icons" turned up as images in a bkgnd called "HCIcons" which i finally located in the "Edit" window with cmd-"L". the image ids are 3001,3002 etc. and everything works well so far. what a thrill to see my little guys moving around in living color. --- Sjoerd Op 't Land <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > erik hansen wrote/ schreef: > > > the custom icons created in HC and opened in > MC > > cannot be found. in HC they are referenced to > the > > stack and appear in the icon window with the > id > > the creator chooses. guys 4001 etc., dolls > 3001 > > etc. where they can be edited. after going > > through tutorials, concepts, and references, > re: > > icons & images, the dancers remain elusive. > "My > > Icons" shows no trace, "Icon Chooser"- > nothing. > > > > are custom icons supposed to show up > somewhere to > > be edited? or could my "Properties" dialog > bug be > > the culprit... > Some things about icons here... (came from HC > myself so...) > > In MC, icons are nothing more than ordinary > image objects. If you want to > make your icons, you need to import the desired > image (as gif or jpeg), > remember its ID, place it offscreen or hide it. > Then take a button object, > and set it's icon to the ID, remember? > > In HC, icons are stored as ICN# resources, and > wont be used when a HC stack > is imported into MC. > > The solution? Try to extract the resources from > your HC stack, and import > them in your MC stack. (Maybe this can be done > with GraphicConverter). > > Regards, / Groeten, > Sjoerd > > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard ===== [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.erikhansen.org __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard