Dialog icons

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#1

My problem rests in the standard additions dictionary:

[with icon number or string] : the resource name or ID of the icon to display.

I’ve seen a system icon before (The blue faced finder icon or the padlock) but how do I get them?

#2

try:

tell application "Finder"
	activate
	display dialog "hello" with icon 1
end tell
tell application "iTunes"
	activate
	display dialog "hello" with icon 1
end tell

it always shows the icon of the application it was called from …

#3

Thankyou, but how do I get a padlock icon? (I saw it in an administrator permission needed dialog)

#4

You’re trying to use an icon from another app?

hello,

#5

Hi,

You have to be more specific. There are a lot of padlock icons.

gl,

#6

one thing is you can try to check the system icons until you find it.

gl,

#7

any padlock icon. It really dosen’t matter. I’va also noticed that this don’t seem to work.:


set player_type to (choose from list types with prompt "What type of person are you?" cancel button name "")
	display dialog "Welcome to Hassumi, " & player_name & "." with icon "Gentfamdisc:Users:Tim:Desktop:Hassumi:Data:Gems:Water Gem.icns"
#8

try: … with icon alias “Gentfamdisc:Users:Tim:Desktop:Hassumi:Data:Gems:Water Gem.icns”

it works for example with ‘display dialog’ - I am not sure about ‘choose from list’ - does it show an icon at all?

#9

what does “file dose not contain an icon” mean?

#10

I’m afraid that display dialog is the only command from Standard Additions’ User Interaction Suite that has a with icon parameter.

You could probably borrow a padlock icon with something like this:

set icn to path to resource "Security.icns" in bundle file ((path to "csrv" as Unicode text) & "SecurityAgent.app")
display dialog "I'm all locked up..." with icon icn
#11

As far as the padlock goes, thats exactly what I wanted. Thanks!

appart from that, I’m making a dialog game called “Hassumi” but can’t get the .icns to work.


set wicons to alias "Gentfamdisc:Users:Tim:Desktop:Hassumi:Data:Gems:Water Gem.icns"
set wiconr to alias "Gentfamdisc:Users:Tim:Desktop:Hassumi:Data:Power Stones:Deep Water.icns"
display dialog "Welcome to the land of Hassumi." & return & "In this land you will find out about the 5 gems of power." buttons {"OK"} with icon alias wiconr
set button to the button returned of (display dialog "Please, stranger, What will you do?" buttons {"Load Game", "New Game"} default button {"New Game"})
if button is "New Game" then
	set player_name to the text returned of (display dialog "Please tell us your name:" default answer "" buttons {"Thats me!"})
	list folder "Gentfamdisc:Users:Tim:Desktop:Hassumi:Data:Power Types"
	set types to the result
	set player_type to (choose from list types with prompt "What type of person are you?" cancel button name "")
	display dialog "Welcome to Hassumi, " & player_name & "." with icon "Gentfamdisc:Users:Tim:Desktop:Hassumi:Data:Power Stones:Deep Water.icns"
end if
#12

Hi again, Fistoprince.

Looks to me like you haven’t specified the icons quite correctly. At the start of your script, the values of the variables wicons and wiconr are set to aliases:

set wicons to alias "Gentfamdisc:Users:Tim:Desktop:Hassumi:Data:Gems:Water Gem.icns" set wiconr to alias "Gentfamdisc:Users:Tim:Desktop:Hassumi:Data:Power Stones:Deep Water.icns"
A little later, the icon represented by the variable wiconr (which is already an alias) is again specified as an alias:

display dialog "Welcome to the land of Hassumi." & return & "In this land you will find out about the 5 gems of power." buttons {"OK"} with icon alias wiconr

This causes some confusion and results in an error number -1700 [errAECoercionFail]:

Removing the alias specifier should fix the problem:

display dialog "Welcome to the land of Hassumi." & return & "In this land you will find out about the 5 gems of power." buttons {"OK"} with icon wiconr

Later in the script, we have:

display dialog "Welcome to Hassumi, " & player_name & "." with icon "Gentfamdisc:Users:Tim:Desktop:Hassumi:Data:Power Stones:Deep Water.icns"

This time, the icon reference is a tad under-specified - since it’s just a string (when the display dialog command expects either an alias or file reference to the ‘.icns’ file). This results in a different kind of failure: error number -192 [resNotFound]:

The fix here is, of course, to add an alias specifier - or to use one of the variables (wicons or wiconr) defined earlier. :slight_smile:

#13

It says "file does not contain an icon. Can it open up an image file of an icon that has been renamed .icns? Thats what I did.

#14

No, I’m afraid that won’t work, Fistoprince - you need a genuine icon file. For more information on how to go about making one, check out the discussion on script icons.

#15

Oh #@â—Š§ (Excuse my french).