This conversation is about icons in File Type Set
- This is the secondnight that Im sleeping like a baby and earlier today( far before 7:00), I woke up and decided to make a simple test.
The test is as follows:
Take an ICNS file,
Add a File Type Set,
Add an empty file type,
Moves the ICNS file onto the Icon area of the File Type Set.
At last, complete the set if there is/are empty entries.
I nearly forgot: I used Xojo 2016r1.1 (for the people that are current) and 2015r1 (because this is my working version - I have a license to compile applications for this version).
So, similar file names for the two projects and here are the names and sizes:
ICNS 2015r1.xojo_binary_project 11,187,232Bytes
ICNS 2016r1.1.xojo_binary_project 11,187,232Bytes
Conclusion:
a. This is how Xojo works. Nay Sayers: do your own tests.
b. I was right in asking if there is a different way to include a full set icon.
c. Who makes this test before giving advice(s) to my question in the forum ?
And, at last, in this case, MY advice is to never add File Type Set Icons into the project until you are nearly ready to release the application.
I REPEAT: I populated all sizes of the Icon; that means:
1,024 x 1,024
512,
256,
128,
48 (32 bit),
48 (8 bit),
32 (32 bit),
32 (8 bit),
16 (32 bit),
16 (8 bit),
And Icon and Mask !
The icns file size is 713KB (709,659Bytes).
PS: I apologize to all readers.
And, please, the next time someone give an advice, be sure it is a good one.