Is RSRC icon support possible?
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Is RSRC icon support possible?
Hi,
I recnetly Googled the search term 'ico and icns' into Google. I was merely trying to get an idea of the popularity of each format on each OS. Anyway, on a website I see someone wrote about another Mac OSX icon format extension .RSRC
I managed to find this website which had a link to an actual RSRC file (picture above). Here is that download link:
http://hijinksinc.com/downloads/iTunes10.rsrc.zip
or
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4nafph
A discussion relating to viewing the format on Windows: Here
What do you think, can it work? Does it have specific pages i.e 16x - 256x +
I recnetly Googled the search term 'ico and icns' into Google. I was merely trying to get an idea of the popularity of each format on each OS. Anyway, on a website I see someone wrote about another Mac OSX icon format extension .RSRC
I managed to find this website which had a link to an actual RSRC file (picture above). Here is that download link:
http://hijinksinc.com/downloads/iTunes10.rsrc.zip
or
http://www.sendspace.com/file/4nafph
A discussion relating to viewing the format on Windows: Here
What do you think, can it work? Does it have specific pages i.e 16x - 256x +
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Re: Is RSRC icon support possible?
Forums references for “RSRC”:
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Re: Is RSRC icon support possible?
Oh So is the RSRC an icon library like .ICL and not an icon file with pages?
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Re: Is RSRC icon support possible?
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// Update -->Tony Smith (eHow: [url=http://www.ehow.com/facts_5545098_file-extension-rsrc.html]What is the File Extension .rsrc?[/url]) wrote:Rsrc, or a file with the.rsrc extension, is a Macintosh resource file. Rsrc files are used by the Mac OS to store system-related data in a compressed format that requires less memory usage.
History
Created by programmer Bruce Horn, resource fork (.rsrc) files are a type of virtual memory originally created for use in the pre-Macintosh Apple Lisa in 1978.
Later Refinements
In 1985, Apple implemented resource fork files for the first time in a Macintosh model. The Macintosh XL used more advanced .rsrc files to reduce the memory consumption of the Mac XL down to 128 kilobytes.
How They Work
A file stores data in its data fork (such as .jpg) but stores other file information, such as its embedded icon graphic, in a resource fork. Most .rsrc files are automatically hidden from the user's view.
Opening .RSRC File
You can locate and open .rsrc files with Apple's ResEdit software in Mac OS 9 or earlier versions, but in OS X you need to use Apple's Terminal application to view or modify an .rsrc file by appending "/..namedfork/rsrc" to your command.
RSRC Files and Windows
Because .rsrc files are limited to a hard-drive format that Windows doesn't support, there currently is no way to open an .rsrc file in Windows.
Warning
Rsrc is a developer file that shouldn't be opened by most users. Changing the structure of the resource fork can cause file data loss and recovery problems.
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Re: Is RSRC icon support possible?
xnview wrote:Do you have some other RSRC files?
- Fairhead Creative: 6 Beautiful Fluid Mac Icons » fc-fluid-mac-icons.zip
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Re: Is RSRC icon support possible?
Are these samples sufficient, Pierre? Do you want me to look for different ones?
BTW: appIcon.rsrc @ Sib Icon Editor:
(41.77 KiB) Downloaded 2 times
BTW: appIcon.rsrc @ Sib Icon Editor:
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Re: Is RSRC icon support possible?
It was an RSRC with a fake .zip filename extension. (The forum doesn't accept .rsrc uploads.)xnview wrote:Your attachment is empty????
iappIcon.zip
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Re: Is RSRC icon support possible?
hum, this files seems to be different, and can't be loaded on iConvertXnTriq wrote:
Pierre.
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Re: Is RSRC icon support possible?
I've just sent you a PM with a link to an archive containing a dozen RSRC samples from different sources.xnview wrote:hum, this files seems to be different, and can't be loaded on iConvert
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Re: Is RSRC icon support possible?
Pierre has done greatness again...
Preliminary support for RSRC has been added in MP 0.32 beta
Mac users would love you for this, Thanks Pierre
Preliminary support for RSRC has been added in MP 0.32 beta
Mac users would love you for this, Thanks Pierre
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Re: Is RSRC icon support possible?
The next thing would be to add Icon Snapshot support for RSRC