cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (06/04/88)
In article <6172@cup.portal.com> LordBah@cup.portal.com writes: >Was I doing this right? Should I be editing ".info" or "Disk.info"? Edit Disk.info, ".info" just keeps track of where the icons are and is not an icon file itself. >Finally, is there a better icon editor than IconED? >lordbah@cup.portal.com [Why don't people use their real names?] Anyway, there is a better icon editor, I use Deluxe Paint II. On the IFF fish disk (#64) there is a program by Dan Silva called zapicon which will take a Dpaint brush file and zap it into a tool icon. There was another program on the net, but I don't know if it is on a fish disk, that will change the "type" of an icon from TOOL, to PROJECT to DISK etc. Any one of the icon tools should be appropriate. Of course there is the commercial version of GI which does something similar. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
doug-merritt@cup.portal.com (06/05/88)
Chuck McManis writes: >There was another program on the net, but I don't know if it is on a >fish disk, that will change the "type" of an icon from TOOL, to PROJECT >to DISK etc. Any one of the icon tools should be appropriate. I'm pretty sure it *was* on a fish disk, but I don't recommend it; there are two formats for icon files, and the utility in question will only change the type field, without concern for the rest of the format. Thus it will certainly break some things. It'd be easy to fix if anyone cares. Doug -- Doug Merritt ucbvax!sun.com!cup.portal.com!doug-merritt or ucbvax!eris!doug (doug@eris.berkeley.edu) or ucbvax!unisoft!certes!doug