Finder Icon CM

FinderIconCM 2.4 Copyright © 2003-2005 Hide Itoh <hide@pixture.com> All rights reserved. PIXTURE STUDIO <http://www.pixture.com> What is FinderIconCM ? FinderIconCM is a contextual menu plugin for Mac OS X. It let you copy/paste/clear/view icon(s) without opening Finder's Get Info dialog. It also allow you to store up 80 icons to its own stock and let you paste icon from the stock, and create a new icon by combining two icons. Features • It can handle multiple items (folders, files, volumes) with one operation. • It can use PICT data in the clipboard for pasting even if there's no icon resource (icns) in the clipboard. (this is a feature that you can not do from Finder's Get Info dialog) • View mode is designed to help people learn Mac OS X icon design by looking other people's icon closely. • When copying icon, it creates and copies 128x128 PICT data to clipboard in addition to icon data (icns) • Icon stock can be used for storing up to 80 frequently used icons, and you can choose an icon from the stock to pasting it to the selected items. • It can create a new icon by combining a base folder icon and the icon of the selected item. A newly created icon can be saved as a new folder, or can be copied to clipboard or icon stock. Notice (Important) • You can not change icon of special item like 'Application folder', 'Document folder', etc... with FinderIconCM. Of course, you can not do this even from Finder's Get Info dialog. So it's not a limitation of FinderIconCM but a design of Mac OS X and Finder. So don't send me an email to ask 'How to change such folders'. You maybe able to change icons of such special folders using some other software like CandyBar from www.iconfactory.com, (although I am not sure because I have never tried it). • Also you can not change neither the items in the read only volume (e.g: CD-ROM) nor items that you do not have write permission. • Currently FinderIconCM does not display any alert or error messages. For some rare errors, it shows error message to the Console. I will remove it with the future version. Installation For your convenicence, simple AppleScript to install the FinderIconCM is enclosed. Just run the 'InstallFinderIconCM' script to install and follow the direction on the screen. You can manually install the FinderIconCM by copying 'FinderIconCM.plugin' package to either '/ Library/Contextual Menu Items' folder or '~/Library/Contextual Menu Items' folder. If you don't have '~/Library/Contextual Menu Items' folder, simply create a new folder and copy it there. In this case, you need to either restart computer, or logout and login again, or restart the Finder to use the FinderIconCM. …