Re: [NTLK] Newton Press & Icons

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Sat Oct 27 2001 - 12:46:18 EDT


On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, Stephanie Maks wrote:

> Thanks for the tips. I looked into the SBM package, but it put the changed
> icon in a separate soup, without altering the actual file, so if the package
> was exported it'd have it's original icon still intact.
>
> Does anyone know, if I use a hex-editor on the .pkg file, is there somewhere
> in there where the icon is stored that a new one could be stripped in? Or
> is that just too tricky to touch?

One would think it would have been documented in the Newton Formats
document:

http://www.unna.org/unna/apple/Newton_Development/tech_info/documentation/acrobat/format11.pdf

...but it isn't. Actually... the Waba tools for creating Newton packages
would have code for manipulating icons in them...

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