Home » forums » Hacking » Development & Software Hacks

Apple menu icon

Submitted by Tom Owad on August 16, 2006 - 5:43pm. Development & Software Hacks

I'd like to edit the Apple menu icon. Does anybody know where it's stored?

» login or register to post comments | previous forum topic | next forum topic

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
gobabushka's picture

under mac os x or mac os 9? u

Submitted by gobabushka on August 16, 2006 - 6:52pm.

under mac os x or mac os 9? under os 9, its either in the system or in system resources. under mac os x, i would have to venture a guess that it would be somewhere in /system/library/core services, btu dont hold me to that!

» My Newest Addition to the Family, A Power Mac G4 Sawtooth!!!, and my PowerBook 1400cs/166 w/ CD Drive!

"I reject your reality and substute my own!!!" -Adam Savage, MythBusters
I HATE MICRO$SOFT!!!!

login or register to post comments
Tom Owad's picture

Mac OS X

Submitted by Tom Owad on August 16, 2006 - 7:21pm.

Mac OS X

» 141 stories posted
login or register to post comments

...

Submitted by tomlevens on September 7, 2006 - 11:42pm.

My guess is that it's stored in:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Resources/Finder.rsrc

But I don't have a resource editor on hand to check.

TOM

» 1 stories posted
login or register to post comments

I would ask on one of the ico

Submitted by hackintoshg4 on September 8, 2006 - 3:23am.

I would ask on one of the icon/desktop extension websites, such as the people who make shape shifter. I don't think you can actually edit the icon. Theres an app called classic menu which changes it to the classic icon and the classic menu, but I believe it just draws the image over the osX menu icon.

»
login or register to post comments
mmphosis's picture

dunno

Submitted by mmphosis on September 9, 2006 - 10:22pm.

As this is Apple's "branding" piece of Mac OS X, it may be obfuscated in code/data within system, aqua (window server), or some other (hidden) place. One might write code to search files that contain this particular bitmap image (assuming one knows how the image is stored.) One might also (somehow) write code to search memory for this particular bitmap image. One might run a (very) low level debugger to trace when/where the apple icon gets drawn. There may be something in the EULA that legally prohibits what is suggested in this post. YellowDog

»
login or register to post comments
Zydeco's picture

It's in /System/Library/Frame

Submitted by Zydeco on October 9, 2006 - 10:45am.

It's in /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Extras.rsrc

It's a pxm resource, you can edit it with ThemePark

However, if you have an Intel mac, it's Extras2.rsrc (and Extras.rsrc is used for PowerPC applications only).
ThemePark can't edit Extras2.rsrc, probably because its little-endian format for numbers.

» So this is how PowerPC dies... with thunderous applause
1 stories posted
login or register to post comments