Hello Ray, I believe I had success setting custom folder icons from LiveCode using the Xcode tool SetFile. I can’t remember who pointed me at it… probably Ken Ray. In order for this to work I needed to store the SetFile tool in a customProp of my app and temporarily write it to the user’s drive. (There may be a legal issue here. In this particular case, I covered my ears while singing “La, la, la”) It has been several years since I last used this but seem to recall that it worked. -- Scott Morrow
Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ email [email protected] office 1-800-615-0867 —| ------------------------------------------------------------- —| set the custom icon bit in the Finder info flags —| this will tell the Finder to use the custom "icon\r" file to display a custom folder icon —| install the Developer Tools and look inside the /Developer/Tools/ directory for a CLI program called SetFile. —| This sets file bits. Specifically, you want to take note of the -a option to set attributes. —| Run the program without arguments and it will show you a table of things to set. —| We're looking for the C attribute in upper case because we want to set it on. —| To turn it off, you use lower case. —| then run this: tPathToSetFile -a C tFolderPath —| in order to run the Command Line Tool "SetFile" from the shell() we will need to install it temporarily —| suck it up and store it in the customProp —> the uSetFileDevTool of stack "MyCoolStack" --> -- /Developer/usr/bin/SetFile -a C /Applications/My\ App\ Name —| ------------------------------------------------------------- on FolderIconFlag tFolderPath -- determine if the SetFile command line tool has already been installed to a temp folder put specialfolderpath(temporary) &"/SetFile" into tSetFilePath -- build the path of a temp location to install into if not (the uSetFileIsInstalled of stack “MyCoolStack") then -- install SetFile app put (decompress(the uSetFileDevTool of stack "MyCoolStack")) into URL ("binfile:" & tSetFilePath) put the result into tResult if tResult is not empty then get log("ERROR:" &CR& "Attempt to write out the Command Line Tool SetFile resulted in: "&& tResult) exit FolderIconFlag -- we failed end if put "755" into tPermission Chmod tSetFilePath, tPermission -- announce that the SetFile is installed set the uSetFileIsInstalled of stack "MyCoolStack" to "true" end if -- escape some special characters put fixPath(tSetFilePath) into tSetFilePath put fixPath(tFolderPath) into tFolderPath -- set the custom folder icon flag get shell(tSetFilePath && "-a C"&& tFolderPath) end FolderIconFlag function fixPath pPath put "\" & space & quote & "'`<>!;()[]?#$^&*=" into tSpecialChars repeat for each char tChar in tSpecialChars replace tChar with ("\" & tChar) in pPath end repeat return pPath end fixPath > On Apr 15, 2015, at 2:30 PM, Ray <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anybody know of a way, from within Livecode, to create a folder and give > it it's own custom display on the desktop? I'd imagine this would be done > with an .ico file. I'd like to do this for both Mac and Windows. > > I've looked through the RunRev store and haven't found any extensions which > do this. Maybe through a command-line somebody has written? > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
