hull@hao.ucar.edu (Howard Hull) (01/30/89)
Bernie, IconType works ok for me. Perhaps you do not have the instructions
Larry Phillips included with the source on the Fish disk?:
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IconType
A useful utility for changing the type of an icon after editing with IconEd.
The "Kick" icon type is not supported, mainly because I can't see a use for
it. If you have a use, let me know, and I'll put it in. Typing the command name
by itself or with a "?" for an argument will print a short "usage" message.
Please note that if you change the type of an icon that is currently
displayed in a window, the window must be closed, then re-opened before you
will see any change in the "INFO" for that icon.
Usage is as follows:
IconType clock.info project (change "clock.info" to a "project" icon)
IconType tools.info drawer (change "tools.info" to a "drawer" icon )
Valid icon types are Disk, Drawer, Tool, Project, Garbage, and Device.
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Read the part about WB not realizing the change until you RE-READ the icon!
Also, when changing disk icons to tool or project icons, you may need to
open the window to full screen to find where the heck they dissappeared to.
Alternatively, use the "NoIconPos" program (on Fred Fish #113) to clear the
position to null.
Following is a summary of Icon manipulating programs from the Fish Disks
(up to FF #160, anyway, and excluding programs of the Icon Exec type).
Some of them will not handle more than two bit planes [hint: If you are
into writing icon manipulating programs, plan for expansion. A three-color
workbench may be slow on a 68000, but 68020s are becoming more common now,
and so with them will come more planes in the workbench - I use a three
plane workbench with AmigaDOS v1.3 and Lavitsky's dropcloth program. Every
now and then it even causes color Mac users to stumble into the furniture. :-) ]
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Disk 12:
SetAlternate Merge the images from two icons to produce one icon with
a primary image, and a possibly completely different image
to display when selected.
Author: John Toebes VIII
Disk 55:
ScreenSave A program to save a normal or HAM mode screen as an
IFF file. Also creates an icon for the saved file.
Author: Carolyn Scheppner
Disk 56:
Icon2C Reads an icon file and writes out a fragment of C code
with the icon data structures, for inclusion in a
larger program.
Author: Carolyn Scheppner
Disk 69:
IconType Change the type of an icon after editing with IconEd.
Types are Disk, Drawer, Tool, Project, Garbage, and Device.
Includes source.
Author: Larry Phillips
Disk 71:
IconMk Iconmaker builds icons for files that were created without
them. Version 1.2a, binary only.
Author: Eric Levy
Disk 85:
ImageTools A set of shareware tools, submitted by the author, to
do various manipulations on IFF images, including comparison
of the color palettes of a pair of IFF images, filtering
an IFF image in various ways, producing a color usage
frequency chart for an IFF image, reducing the size of
an IFF image to produce a miniature to use as an icon,
converting an icon to an IFF image, and recoloring an IFF
image using the palette of a second image, in a least
squared error fashion. Shareware, binary only.
Author: Stephen Vermeulen
Disk 101:
IconAssembler This program loads existing WorkBench icon files and
allows you to change either the primary or alternate
images to another image loaded from an IFF-brush file.
Binary only.
Author: Stefan Lindahl
Disk 113:
NoIconPos This program clears the position info of any of your icons
to allow WorkBench to pick a reasonable place for the icon
again. Useful for disk and drawer icons where Snapshot
rewrites the icon and the window information. Written in
Modula-2, another demo for M2Amiga, showing the simplicity
of programming with this Modula-2 compiler.
Author: Markus Schaub
Disk 120:
IconImage Program to replace an old icon image with a new image,
without affecting icontype, drawer data, etc.
Includes source.
Author: Denis Green
Disk 150:
Iconizer A utility program that saves your current mouse pointer
to a small icon. You can restore the pointer just by
double-clicking on its icon. Allows for building a whole
library of pointers and to use them whenever you want.
Binary only.
Author: Alex Livshits
Disk 151:
Surveyor A little utility that opens a window on the current
screen and displays information about the pointer.
Allows for absolute or relative measurement between
two points on the screen. Very handy for precise
positioning of icons and such. Includes source.
Author: Dirk Reisig
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That's all, folks.
Howard Hull
hull@hao.ucar.edu