Kevin Walzer wrote:
>  >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.

OS X .icns files are an unfortunate black art that hasn't been cracked, as far
as I can tell.  There are some viewing tools and such, but no API spec or
anything that would work in a x-platform manner.

Jeff

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