Simply it does not work; It crashes while dragging pngs to 128*128 squares or higher.
Works with 32 * 32 icons; Mac OS 8.3 Mountain Lion 😀
MacBook Pro 17", PowerBook G4 17", OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
Works with JPEG2000 instead of .PNGs; Not a solution, but a workaround...
Application corruption problems: You need to look in your user Library/Preferences for the .plist. Hold down the option key while using the Finder "Go To Folder" command. Enter ~/Library. Delete the .plist(s) for the application.
If you prefer to make your user library permanently visible, use the Terminal command found below.
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/04/show-library-directory-in-mac-os-x-lion/
You might want to bookmark the command. I had to use it again after I installed 10.8.2. I have also been informed that if you drag the user library to Finder it will remain visible.
It does not works 😟
I read that Apple isn't supporting Icon Composer anymore due to it not supporting Retina displays.
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/59561/where-did-icon-composer-go-from-x code
There is a link, at the bottom, to download the application again. When I tried it the file went in my trash, not to my desktop.
Here is a link to Xcode 4, which I think Icon Composer is linked to.
https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
More information:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12437433/where-can-i-find-icon-composer-on-ma c
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4207348?start=0&tstart=0
Possible alternatives - use this in a search engine:
how to make an image an icon on mac
I tried to re-download
Graphics Tools for Xcode - January 2013
from
https://developer.apple.com/downloads/
but the problem should be somewhere in OS X 10.8.3, not in Xcode and his tools.
I already know about CLI tools for icns, but in 2013, you can call me strange, I prefer to use GUI tools 🙂
Thanks and please excuse my poor English.
No GUI tools?
I didi it by myself:
http://www.roam.it/soft/ic/ic.zip
🙂
It's an applescript app, and here's his code:
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on open aDroppedFolders
repeat with i from 1 to the count of aDroppedFolders
set vAMacFolder to item i of aDroppedFolders
set vAPOSIXFolder to POSIX path of vAMacFolder
do shell script "iconutil -c icns " & quoted form of vAPOSIXFolder
end repeat -- with i from 1 to the count of aDroppedFolders
end open
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It's GPL'd; hope this could help someone.
Bye
Hey Eugenio, great tool! Is there a description in english?
Not yet, but in the meantime I wrote another tool to help to prepare .PNG for IconCreator: PNG Preparator 0.1
You can now create your icons in PNG files with these sizes:
16 * 1632 * 3264 * 64128 * 128256 * 256512 * 5121024 * 1024save them as .PNG respectively as
16.png32.png64.png128.png256.png512.png1024.pngcreate a folder with a name of your choice, eg. "abcd".
move the .PNG files in "abcd" folder, open with PNG Preparator and you'll obtain an inconset, a folder named "abcd.iconset", containing all you need to create your icon.
Then open "abcd.iconset" with IconCreator:
and you'll have "abcd.icns", your icon file.
That's all.
Shortlink to PP and IC are:
http://www.roam.it/soft/pp/pp.zip
http://www.roam.it/soft/ic/ic.zip
Bye
Icon Composer and OS X 10.8.3