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Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:11 pm**

There's a way to import the icon of an app or a volume, to display it as imagesource in a list (the files, the folders) ?

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 6:54 pm**

Is your screenshot from something inside a Livecode stack, or just from the Macintosh operating system's Finder?

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 6:55 pm**

Hi.

You can always take a screen shot of the icon and get a PNG. Not sure if there is a more "direct" way.

Craig Newman

Posted: **Wed Nov 08, 2017 7:17 pm**

A more direct way would be to use LiveCode Builder to talk directly to the OS APIs to obtain that image data. A bit of work, but doable.

Posted: **Thu Nov 09, 2017 3:06 pm**

You can extract the icons this way:

Import the screenshot image in Livecode
Use another empty image as rectangle, call it "borders". Place it where you want to extract the image.

put the rect of image "borders" into temp
import snapshot from rect temp of this card

Tested and works!

Posted: **Thu Nov 09, 2017 3:14 pm**

Max, that is awesome and simple. I am tucking it away for future use

Icon of files, volumes, apps