[X4U] Re: X4U Digest, Vol 17, Issue 54

[John Baltutis]

On 01/15/06, Daly Jessup <jessup at san.rr.com> wrote:
> At 7:05 PM -0800 1/15/06, John Baltutis wrote:
>>On 01/15/06, Daly Jessup <jessup at san.rr.com> wrote:
>>>  Said Nuseibeh wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>I have had too much flag-waving patriotism. I want to change the icons
>>>>>>for the input menu flags. Anyone know where they are in the system?
>>>
>>>>There are certainly some .icns under the Unicode.bundle, but no
>>>>Spanish flag there among others. I would expect it to leave under
>>>>Roman.bundle but the location is not apparent. Where is it stored?
>>>
>>>  I found that all the ones whose .icns files are missing from the
>>>  Unicode bundle are listed in the Roman bundle. But there are no icns
>>>  files in the Roman bundle, just the .lproj folders and the Roman.rsrc
>>>  file. I am assuming that the icons are in the Roman.rsrc file, but I
>>>  can't find a way to open that file to confirm.
>>
>>AFAICT, the icons are in the Roman.rsrc file, but stored in the data fork, not
>>the resource fork. See
>><http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031126001014824> for steps to
>>change that data fork stuff to the resource fork. Opening the resulting file
>>w/ResEdit in Classic depicts the icons as kcns objects, but not as icons. See
>><http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2002/tn2056.html> for details.
>>Converting those to icon files is left as an exercise-it might require booting
>>into OS 9 and running ResEdit from there. See
>><http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20031126001014824> for other
>>ideas.
>
> Hm.  When I opened it in ResEdit in Classic it said there was no
> resource fork and offered to create one. When I opened it in
> something else (Resourcerer?) it said there was no data fork. I have
> been able to see the text contents of the file, but as far as I can
> determine, there is no data fork at all.  Where do you get Peeper?

The Roman.rsrc file stores everything in its data fork (no resource fork).
Follow the steps in the macosxhints article and convert it to a file that moves
everything from the data to the resource fork. Then, open it in ResEdit. As I
noted, the files you want are kcns objects, not icns.