[Vm-dev] [Pharo-dev] Change Pharo window icon

[Eliot Miranda]

Hi Stef,

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:32 AM, Stephane Ducasse <stepharo.self at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Would it be possible to change the icon without having to compile a new VM?
>

Through an AppleScript:

e.g. https://www.sethvargo.com/replace-icons-osx/


> To me the current setup looks so monolithic and dated.
> I would expect that somebody can deploy a application with its own
> logo by just providing some new resources.
>

And that's indeed possible.  Take the .app bundle and change the .icns file
as described above.


>
> Stef
>
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:17 PM, Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi Vincent,
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 12:07 PM, <Vincent.Blondeau at lamresearch.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I would like to know how to change the main Pharo window icon. I saw
> that
> >> there is a primitive for the title:
> >> DisplayScreen class  >> primitiveWindowTitle:string: ; primitive:
> >> 'primitiveHostWindowTitle' module:'HostWindowPlugin'
> >> but I cannot find one for the icon.
> >> Should another primitive need to be implemented?
> >
> >
> > The icon is baked into the VM executable.  So to change it one has to
> build
> > a VM with a different icon.
> >
> > On Windows it is in
> >     {build.win32x86,build.win64x64}/pharo.cog.spur/Pharo.ico
> > and the file that specifies to use Pharo.ico is
> >     {build.win32x86,build.win64x64}/pharo.cog.spur/Pharo.rc
> >
> > On Mac OS X it is in
> >     platforms/iOS/vm/OSX/Pharo.icns
> > (alongside three others such as PharoImage.icns)
> > and the file that specifies to use Pharo.icns is
> >     {build.macos32x86,build.macos64x64}/pharo.cog.spur/Makefile
> > in setting the VM variable.  The file that associates the other icons
> with
> > specific file types is
> >     platforms/iOS//vm/OSX/Pharo-Info.plist
> >
> > If you're changing the Pharo icon let me suggest you update the icon
> files
> > themselves in the opensmalltalk-vm source tree.
> >
> > If you're creating a new variant of the VM for some new purpose (say a
> > special Lam VM) then let me suggest you add the icons to the
> > opensmalltalk-vm source tree, creating special build directories for
> these
> > VMs, such as {build.macos32x86,build.macos64x64}/lam.pharo.cog.spur/
> >
> > If you want to do this privately, then take either of the approaches
> above
> > and simply don't publish the edits.  You can write a script that takes an
> > updated checked-out opensmalltalk-vm source tree and edits it with files
> > from a specific repository.  I have such scripts and can help you with
> them.
> > Hint, pax is a very convenient directory hierarchy copying tool
> available at
> > least on Mac OS X.  pax -rwlk will copy the trees under a sequence of
> > directories into their corresponding places in a target tree.
> >
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Vincent
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > _,,,^..^,,,_
> > best, Eliot
>
>


-- 
_,,,^..^,,,_
best, Eliot
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