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Topic : Change icon?

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J Michael

Posts: 520
From: Bainbridge Island, WA
Registered: Mar 13, 2005

Change icon?
Posted: Sep 21, 2005 8:32 AM

I created an automtion and added it to my dock. The default icon for this is the automator icon. Is there a way to change this to something else?

Thanks!

Kevin Wolfe3

Posts: 498
Registered: Jun 7, 2005

RE: Change icon?
Posted: Sep 21, 2005 10:02 AM

in response to: J Michael

J,

Yup. And it's fairly simple. You can swipe icons from other apps. (Please respect copyrights if you plan to offer your app to the public.)

Go to any file, folder, or app on your mac and single click on it.

Press Apple-i.

Single click on the icon at the top of the info screen and press Apple-c to copy it.

Go to your automator app you made.

Single click on the icon.

Press Apple-i.

When the info screen comes up single click on the icon on the top left.

Apple-v to paste. Your app has a new icon.

Note that when you save your automator app again, the old icon will come back and you'll have to do the process again.

If you'd like to see a few of my automator apps, they're not quite ready for public consumption yet, but they're up, each with their on icon. You'll find them at http://www.booksthatdontgobad.com/DownloadXtras

I don't use any icon builders, but have a few freeware utilities that are nice. I found them either at macupdate.com of apple's software site.

Cocoathumbx-Converts a file's content to an icon. Works with images and pdfs

Thumbscrew-Creates a nice little slanted icon of images dropped on it. Many things can be modified in prefs.