I said you were coming across to me as snide. I have no idea of knowing whether or not you are, but the way you phrased your responses came across that way, even when I tried to read it charitably. I said what I did to either let you know you might unintentionally have come across that way, so you would know, or so that you'd know that if you were attempting to be mean, it isn't acceptable.
I am glad to know you were not trying to be mean, and I apologize if I took it the wrong way when you were trying to help.
And no, I have not yet updated to Catalina - I prefer to wait until everyone is finished crying after a new release before I install it on my work machines. ; )
Telling people to relax when you may have caused them offense is considered rude by most people, by the way. I would refrain, if you are attempting to actually de-escalate a situation. It comes across as disrespectful of someone's emotions. If you don't believe me, go spill a beer on someone in a sports bar, then tell them to relax, and see what comes of it. Even if you spilled it accidentally, if you tell them to relax when they are annoyed, they probably will do the opposite. ; )
But that's not a programming problem (although developers, programmers, and engineers have a stereotype that we lack social skills).
Anyway, yeah, it's a mystery. I'm torn between doggedly attempting to solve it until it's right, in case it helps others, or just grabbing the first icns file I see in {application package}/Contents/Resources and maybe giving a choice if there are multiple ones. ; ) I'm just tinkering really. Got curious how complicated it would be to come up with a limited Dragthing clone in Livecode, since Dragthing won't work from Catalina onward, and the dev does not plan to update any longer.
Most of the features I actually use are pretty straightforward, except getting the ding-dong icons.
Even if one _gets_ the plist file read without gibberish in it, it really only solves the problem for simpler icon implementations anyway, since some apps store the information about their icons in more complex ways, through things like shared bundle entries (MS Office, etc. for instance).
As for reading the icons themselves, I'm pretty sure I've seen examples of how to do that lurking around.
richmond62 wrote: Sun Nov 03, 2019 10:49 pm
Well, I'm sorry if you think I'm being snide. Far from it.
I was
extremely impressed and pleasantly surprised that your stack did what you had intended it to do on my Macintosh.
I only wish I could work out why it is not working on your machine.
Err . . . are you running MacOS 10.15 Catalina? If so, I wonder if that has something to do with the matter.
When someone comes to a forum asking for help
When I ask for help on this forum I often get responses that I could interpret as sarcastic, condescending or snide if I chose to:
but I like to think that anyone who responds to any of my cries for help is offering something helpful in good faith; even if in my case,
quite a few of them are probably splitting their pants laughing at some of the extremely goofy mistakes I tend to make.
Relax, friend.
