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Tiger icons
[edit]Doesn't Tiger add support for 256 x 256 icons? The Geeklord 21:59, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
- I haven't seen that. I would be thrilled if they did. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 23:09, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
- See Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger which states:
Apple has quietly expanded the maximum supported dimensions of Mac OS X's "icns" icon format to include 256x256-pixel icons, and 512x512-pixel icons are not out of the question for the future.
"Scalable User Interface" By John Siracusa, Published: April 28, 2005
- There is some evidence that no 256 x 256 icons have been seen in the wild. Leopard has support for 512 x 512. Both of these sizes of icons appear to depend on "Icon Services" to read or write their data, and the interested reader should search for kIconServices256PixelDataARGB or kIconServices512PixelDataARGB . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.97.194.106 (talk) 14:47, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Am I doing this right? (OS X Icon Editor link)
[edit]Newbie editor here...I added the external link to the OS X Icon Editor page because it seems relevant and is one of the few freeware icon-editing resources available for OS X. (All of the See Also links are commercial products.) Is that the correct usage? Perhaps it ought to have its own Wikipedia article, but I haven't the time right now, and I'm not sure if it's sufficiently notable anyway. Phasma Felis 00:17, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
Is there actually a 256 x 256 icon
[edit]See Scaling Your Artwork —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.97.194.106 (talk) 16:38, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
- The Mac OS 10.5 version of Icon Composer has a slot for 256x256 icons. David Arthur (talk) 18:54, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Developer's Information
[edit]See HowToMakeAquaIcons and icns file format specification . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.97.194.106 (talk) 16:51, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
Is the run-length compression used in the icns format really PackBits?
[edit]I implemented a reader plugin for the icns format, but couldn't read the run-length compressed icons, even though I believe I have PackBits implemented correctly. After googling around, I came across Apace Sanselan, which implementes icns reading and correctly decodes the compressed icons. While similar, that run-length encoding is not PackBits (at least not as described on WikiPedia).
In particular, the length of the compressed runs are defined in PackBits as 1 - n (2-129, smaller n yields larger lenghts, n == -128 is a no-op), but in icns, they seem to be n + 131 (3-130, larger n yields larger lengths).
Is it me, or is it the article that is wrong about PackBits? Confused...
93.124.242.6 (talk) 13:20, 27 October 2011 (UTC) Harald K
error in table: icp6: 64x64 instead of 48x48?
[edit]Looking at these random rust and java libs, both map "icp6" to 64x64:
https://github.com/mdsteele/rust-icns/blob/master/src/icontype.rs https://github.com/gino0631/icns/blob/master/icns-core/src/main/java/com/github/gino0631/icns/IcnsType.java Zalumon (talk) 13:43, 8 January 2025 (UTC)