Comments on: System Icon Viewer

By: jils

jils — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:47:50 +0000

This is a great tool for Mac devs. Thanks for making it available.

By: Chardish

Chardish — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:03:56 +0000

Thanks for this! As a new Cocoa developer, this is very handy for me.

By: Vincent Gable

Vincent Gable — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:55:07 +0000

Thanks for making this available, it has really helped me find the right icons to use.

By: mr_noodle

mr_noodle — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:49:09 +0000

Ah, that explains the clipping on the Carbon end though it seems that NSImage is able to wrangle up a 64×64 version. But thanks for the heads up.

Interesting tool. I think one of the major points of this discussion is that the category is mostly unnecessary plus mine is not really a maintained tool so I wouldn’t worry if I were you.

By: Peter Hosey

Peter Hosey — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:58:32 +0000

Very nice. There is one bug: The icon size between 128 and 32 is 48, not 64; that’s why the icon is clipped in the 64-pt Carbon image well (it uses the next larger rep, which is 128, and you told it not to scale, so it clips).

Also, I wrote a similar app called IconGrabber. I was still learning Cocoa at the time, and hadn’t yet found out that iconForFileType: could do HFS types; it uses GetIconRef for type/creator combinations. You can supply a creator, or leave it blank to use kSystemIconsCreator. It also supports NSImage names, filename extensions (iconForFileType: again), and MIME types, as well as various icon transformations (e.g. disabled, selected, scaling). And you can save any icon as a TIFF file.

Mine doesn’t have any reusable categories, though, so yours has the advantage there.

By: mr_noodle

mr_noodle — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:46:10 +0000

Sorry. Just learning WordPress. Should be working now.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:42:38 +0000

Link’s dead.