How to support Finder preview pane for new application file types

[rhoge at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu (Rick Hoge)]

Greg and Andreas thanks!!  IconFamily is perfect - I already have my  
app saving with the correct icons using it.  Great to find out about  
this!

Rick

On Mar 5, 2004, at 4:13 PM, Andreas Mayer wrote:

>
> Am 05.03.2004 um 21:37 schrieb Rick Hoge:
>
>> On the other hand, if there were some way to do something even as  
>> simple as writing an icns or PICT resource to my files that would be  
>> really cool because it would give a bit of context in the finder.  I  
>> am working with Medical image files which, for backward  
>> compatibility, should not have anything extra in the data fork.  I do  
>> everything in Cocoa though and know nothing about Carbon, which is  
>> where all the API's for writing resources seem to be -
>
> Have a look at this:
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/troy_stephens/software/objects/IconFamily/ 
> content.html
>
>
> Andreas
>
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