adium dock icon

guilte · Post by **guilte** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:20 am

hey...can anyone tell me ihow to make dock icons? like a step by step thing? coz' i want to make a few...but i don't understand the script!
please...thanks!

kirk · Post by **kirk** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:33 am

http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/AdiumIcon

guilte · Post by **guilte** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 10:32 am

yup i went there...but i don't understand..haha...
maybe i'll ask the qns here..
how big is the picture suppose to be?
and do i just replace the entire code that is there...with just my file names?

Arenzera · Post by **Arenzera** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 10:45 am

guilte wrote:yup i went there...but i don't understand..haha...
maybe i'll ask the qns here..
how big is the picture suppose to be?
and do i just replace the entire code that is there...with just my file names?

Picture size: I'd imagine it'd be 128 by 128 (as with every other Mac OS X icon).
The other question: Perhaps you're better off downloading a custom dock icon and comparing the two .plist files for yourself to see what the difference between the two are.

To view the plist file, simple control-click the .AdiumIcon extra and choose "Show Package Contents" from the contextual menu. That'll show you the guts of an Adium icon.

When you go to assemble your icon, put all the necessary files (the images and the plist file, etc) in a folder and give the folder the extension ".AdiumIcon".

I wonder if this is any help...

Kiel :-)

guilte · Post by **guilte** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:19 pm

thanks...i'll see how it goes...and tell u..thanks again!

guilte · Post by **guilte** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:21 pm

i tried what u told me...but i cant do it...oh man..i give up..haha
anyways anyone out there can help me do a beckham one?
if you can't its okay...
thanks if you can!
haha

kirk · Post by **kirk** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:47 pm

You spent an hour working on it and you give up? It's really not that difficult.

Theow593 · Post by **Theow593** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 10:07 pm

That really is confusing.... l have a bunch of simple icons l want to use. I even replaced my filenames with theirs in another persons plist.

wunderwood · Post by **wunderwood** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 3:38 am

See the thing is these icons are animated. So their are multible images for each icon. Like an image for way, an image with the ducks eyes closed ect. The plist is simply a guide to tell which image is which. If you want you can simply make a copy of a custom icon and replace the images with your own images with the same names. Than the only thing you have to change is the author and the title and website. It's in the first few lines of the code.

Code: Select all

<key>Title</key>
                <string>Your Title Here</string>
                <key>Creator</key>
                <string>Your Name Here</string>
                <key>LinkURL</key>
                <string>Link to Your Web Site Here</string>

And your icon should still work even if you don't change this info, this is more for you to take credit and give credit to the artist.

I hope this works for you.