Comments on: Cocoa Tutorial: Custom Folder Icons

By: girishkolari

girishkolari — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:58:49 +0000

I expected to have a badging icon to be displayed over a folder icon, when I tried it is displaying only the badging icon for the folder selected folder,

Basically I am trying to badge a file and folder in a particular location, is there any other solution then icon services?

By: Brian Webster

Brian Webster — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:24:50 +0000

@Matt

This post is still very useful, just so we can show the damn kids these days how easy they have it.

"This is how we used to set a custom icon, with 300 lines of code! Uphill both ways through the snow! And that's the way we liked it!"

:-)

By: recycleosphere

recycleosphere — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:50:37 +0000

The context of Kay’s “poking things with a stick” is the design of the GUI interface we all are familiar with.

By: recycleosphere

recycleosphere — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:48:53 +0000

The source of “poking things with a stick” was an Alan Kay interview. Alan Kay, for those who don’t know, was the inventor of Smalltalk and a luminary at Xerox PARC. He later was an Apple Fellow, and currently works on the Squeak project.

By: Matt Long

Matt Long — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:56:36 +0000

@Brian Webster

Hmmm. Now that's handy. (... he says sheepishly). ;-)

Well this really draws into question my ability to track down a problem. Google!! You've failed me! :-D

Thanks for the pointer.

-Matt

By: Brian Webster

Brian Webster — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:59:01 +0000

Apple did finally take care of this mess in 10.4 by providing -[NSWorkspace setIcon:forFile:options:]. It lets you just pass in an NSImage you want to set for the icon and automagically takes care of the dirty work for you.

By: enc

enc — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:42:39 +0000

as i look at it, i think that 280 lines of code is a bit too much for this (even if we remove comments and whitespaces). i think there should be an easier way to code this up.

other than that - great piece of code. thanks!