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About Mac icons
On macintosh, there are three types of icons - so called suites: Standard, New, and OS X.
Standard suite is the one used in system versions prior to Mac OS 8. New suite appeared on Mac OS 8. OS X suite was introduced on Mac OS X.

Following table shows which icon sizes and depths are supported in each icon suite.
S - Standard suite, N - New suite, X - OS X suite

  1-bit
B & W		 4-bit
16 color		 8-bit
256 color		 32-bit
1.67m color		 1-bit Mask 8-bit Mask
Mini (12x12) N N N N N N
Small (16x16) S, N S, N S, N N S, N N
Large (32x32) S, N S, N S, N N S, N N
Huge (48x48) N N N N N N
Thumbnail (128x128) - - - X - X
Hi-Res Tiger (256x256) - - - X - X
Hi-Res Leopard (512x512) - - - X - X

Of course, new systems can read older icon suites. Mac OS X can also read older icon suites, but thumbnail icon on OS X looks far much better than an older and smaller icon.

Iconeer supports all three icon suites, all color depths and all sizes excluding Mini icons. Mini icons are too small to be very useful. Besides Mac OS can draw mini icons even if there is no mini icon resource - it simply uses larger icon size and zooms the icon to mini size.

More patterns for Iconeer desktop
Iconeer desktop allows you real-time preview of your icons on different backgrounds. Iconeer has predefined patterns, which can be used on its desktop. There is possibility to add more patterns. When Iconeer starts up, it reads contents of the folder Patterns which resides in the same folder as the Iconeer application file. Iconeer reads all PICT resources found in every file in Patterns folder. All those pictures are listed in menu View > Background > Pattern and can be used on Iconeer desktop.
There is also one trick you can use to quickly change your desktop to a picture or pattern that is not listed under available Patterns. Just drag a picture file or a clipping to the Iconeer desktop. Dragged picture is not remembered between sessions.