Andreas,

Thank you for your replies.
>  >
>  > 1. Is there a way to specify a custom icon for Mac OS X application
> bundles?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>  > I can't seem to find it in the documentation or in the GUI. The custom
> icon
> 
> It is not documented yet. This part is in flux as well, more a hack.
> 
>  > in tclapp seems to apply to the actual basekit, not to a Mac app bundle.
> 
> Go to the panel 'meta data'.
> 
> Use the keys
> 
> 	osx,info		OS X information string for the bundle
> 	osx,id		OS X identifier for the bundle
> 	osx,region		OS X Development Region	(Default: English)
> 	osx,sign		OS X Signature (4 char type code)
> 
> 	osx,help		Name of Help Book Folder under English.lproj of the bundle
> 
> 	osx,icon		Path of the .icns file to copy into the bundle
> 				The tail of that path is automatically used as the name
> 				of the icon.
> 
> 	osx,version		CFBundleVersion
> 	osx,shortversion	CFBundleShortVersionString
> 
> 

I will give this a try and report back.



>  > 2. More generally,  is there away to specify additional resources to be
>  > included in the application bundle, such as help documents?

> 
> Neverthless. What resources beyond Help are you thinking about, and how
> would you go on specifying this in the UI ?
> 

Icons, the help book, and perhaps external executables.

py2app (Python tool for creating Mac app bundles) has a "data" flag, which 
specifies items to be copied into the resources directory of the app bundle 
(Myapp.app/Contents/Resources).

Not sure where to specify this in the GUI.

> 
> Regarding Icons, do you know if there is Tcl code, or other extension 
> around
> for handling .icns files ?
> Display, file type detection, maybe decoding (list of icons inside, sizes,
> etc.) ?

There are none that I am aware of. I have looked at this myself, but it is 
beyond my skill to code in C. The Carbon API for accessing icons is found in 
IconServices, with calls such as GetIconRef(); this will fetch and display 
and image, but it's nothing that Tk can use without some bridging. There is 
also an open-source (BSD-license) Cocoa library called IconFamily, but I 
don't know how easily Tcl can be bridged to Objective C. I've looked at the 
CoreGraphics API's to see if there is any way to convert an icns file to a 
GIF or PNG in memory so it could be displayed in Tk, but it's over my head.

Thanks,
Kevin

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