Aqua-Soft ForumsI've created an icon in Icon Composer (the XCode developer-tool-thing) and I have absolutely no idea how to apply it to anything. It shows up as the icon - with some jaggies around the edges - when I look at it in Finder, but if I copy it and try to paste it as anything's icon I get the standard Preview .icns icon. If I try to copy/paste it from Preview or Photoshop, I get the icon on a black background. If I use something like Iconographer and save it as "Mac OS X Universal (Resources)" I can copy its icon and paste it elsewhere without trouble, but it seems odd that the supposedly standard OS X icon format doesn't work in the OS it's designed for. 
Can't apply individual .icns
Candybar is the best tool for changing icons. Apple's directions well...suck.
As for the jaggedness. Try converting it thru Pic2Icon...it usually helps with jagged edges.
System icons I can change with Shapeshifter - I mean things like folders, applications, that kind of thing.
You can also use this little program FinderIconCM. It lets you right click (control click) on icons, save them to a "stock" or copy and paste them to the icon you want to change. I use that in conjunction with candybar to make quick changes to folder icons once i have created them.
just get info on the icon you want to change, select the little icon at the top (not the preview) and paste the .icns ontop of it.
just get info on the icon you want to change, select the little icon at the top (not the preview) and paste the .icns ontop of it.
Yes. When I do that, I get the Preview .icns icon.
You can also use this little program FinderIconCM. It lets you right click (control click) on icons, save them to a "stock" or copy and paste them to the icon you want to change. I use that in conjunction with candybar to make quick changes to folder icons once i have created them.
Thanks, I'll look for that. 
here's the link to FinderIcon's site, It's from a company called pixture studio. They have some other cool context menu things like QuickImage. Just take a look at their stuff and you'll see.
Sorry for bump this thread up ))
I have this prob: i download an icon pack, unpack it and see alot of nice (but jagged) icns files.
I don't care about its jugged but if i drop it onto CandyBar - i get standart icns file icon (same i see in Get Info window).
Thats it. Now I'm little disoriented - what i should to do to use those icons with CandyBar? I don't want copy it from Get Info and paste it where i want it to be... I want to drop it onto CandyBar and press Apply =)
The manual way is to use the Property List Editor. This is how you change document and application icons. Drop your desired ICNS file in the "Resources" directory of your app which opens your file in question. Open an Info.plist file (found under "Contents") and look for the Root Child "CFBundleIconFile" for the application's icon, and "CFBundleDocumentTypes" for the document icon. Edit these entries by typing in the name of your desired ICNS file in the Editor, saving, and restarting your application.
I am not responsible for any nightmares you get from using my tutorial:
