Aqua Icon Builder

[Piet Keizer]

When a folder alias is placed in the Dock, there'll be no room for the name of it. This will be a problem if you put a lot of aliases of folders in the Dock; they'll be hard to tell apart.

Therefore, it would be handy if there was a little free icon building application.

Using the aqua interface, this should be very easy: an icon may consist of several layers, the first showing what kind of volume the icon refers to and the second showing a specific picture. In the aqua environment, it'll be very easy to let the application scale this picture, so that the bottom layer is still visible. A text layer could also be added.

Who's going to build the app?

 

[franky]

Seems you didn't know there already is one

Check it out: http://www.mscape.com/products/iconographer.html

 

[Piet Keizer]

Thanks Franky,

I downloaded it and it's beautiful! It also supports OS X icons, as you probably already knew.

From the program, it appears that OS X uses bitmaps for icons. I thought they would be little PDF-like, layered, vector based files, like most of aqua should be. This is a bit of a disappointment.

How much of aqua is really vector based???

 

[eucci]

Ars Technica has some great articles about Mac OS X.

http://arstechnica.com/reviews/2q00/macos-x-dp4/macos-x-dp4-4.html gives a good overview. There are less vectors than you think (but there's room for them. See the new QuickTime player and watch how the arch at the bottom (under the controls) changes when the window is at different sizes.