Phurple 0.3

Chris and Steve were thoroughly recreating all the standard icons on Steve's system. They changed all the folders icons to a more three-dimensional-looking gray design, and made sure all the other icons shared the new look. Along the way, they wanted to change the individual icons of files and folders.

Now of course, changing the icon of a folder is no biggie, assuming you feel like launching ResEdit, hitting Command-O, and hunting down the Icon<CR> file within the folder in question. That file is invisible, of course, so you can't just drop the thing on ResEdit like you can any normal file.

So Phurple came into being. With Phurple, you can simply drop the icon of the folder you want to modify onto Phurple. Phurple will find the icon file for you, or create it (and set the necessary folder bits to cause the new icon file to be used) and then finds and launches (if necesary) ResEdit, passing it a pointer to the icon file. Viola! You can now edit the icon using ResEdit's built-in icon editor.

You can download Phurple to your Macintosh.

Current features

The current version does basically what we wanted it to, so we have little reason to update it at this point. But it's clearly not a polished product, so the version number is stuck at 0.3 for now.

Phurple allows you to drop folder and disk icons onto it, and it will Do The Right Thing(tm), even when it creates new icons. You can also drop regular files onto Phurple, and Phurple will just pass them along to ResEdit as if you'd dropped the file onto ResEdit's icon, instead.

Possible future features

Actually, I now use Resourcerer instead of ResEdit for most of my resource editing these days. So if I find myself doing any more folder icon editing, you'll likely see an update to Phurple.

The following additional features may someday be added to Phurple:

Phurple should allow you to select your preferred resource editor. You should just find the application on disk, and Phurple will figure out what to do to forward all your editing requests to that app.
I'm sure there were others.

Phurple was written by Geoff Adams and Chris Ross. If you'd like to contact the authors regarding Phurple, please send mail to phurple2@minos.avernus.com.

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