[X4U] Input Menu Flags

John Baltutis baltwo at san.rr.com
Mon Jan 16 12:02:55 PST 2006


On 01/16/06, 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?
>
> John  Baltutis answered:
>
>>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.
>
> Okay, I did the trick of moving everything to the resource fork.  I
> can see the kcns resources, but as you say, they don't show as icons.
> So this still leaves the original poster unable to change the icon of
> the Spanish flag although I guess we are still assuming that the
> flags are hidden somewhere in the Roma.rsrc file.

Sorry for not changing the subject in my last post. I suspect that the id
number for each keyboard layout maps to the id for each kcns, which is the flag
icon. If so, then the OP could change the kcns for his particular setting, but
I'm not about to experiment. I'm all for the flag-waving.


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