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When an app creates/saves a document, the document can have a custom icon assigned to it. From what I gather there are a couple ways to associate the custom icon with the document type. One is the old fashioned way that utilizes a resource fork and the other uses newer OS X specific techniques.
Photoshop (and maybe other graphics apps) is unique in that it can save a thumbnail representation of the image as the document icon. This means that every document can have a unique icon. Currently, even with the latest versions of Photoshop (haven’t tried CS3 yet though) & OS X, a resource fork is still being used to accomplish this type of custom icon. Is there any other way that this can be done without using a resource fork, currently or in the future? Does Adobe plan on using resource forks for the forseeable future? Will OSX support resource forks for the forseeable future?
Photoshop (and maybe other graphics apps) is unique in that it can save a thumbnail representation of the image as the document icon. This means that every document can have a unique icon. Currently, even with the latest versions of Photoshop (haven’t tried CS3 yet though) & OS X, a resource fork is still being used to accomplish this type of custom icon. Is there any other way that this can be done without using a resource fork, currently or in the future? Does Adobe plan on using resource forks for the forseeable future? Will OSX support resource forks for the forseeable future?
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