jcwasik@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik) (03/26/91)
Continuing a discussion about icons... On cica.cica.indiana.edu in /pub/pc/win3/icons/viewicon.zip there are some very useful utilities. Many thanks to the authors. It has solved my problem of what to do with my icon collection. Saving all icons each in their own file takes too much disk space. Saving all icons in a single file (e.g. ICONLIB) takes too much time to find one. Geticon strips all icons out of iconlib and assigns each a unique file name. Viewicon displays all icon files with their file names. This has allowed me to build a 1000+ library of icons on a floppy, find the few that I want and store only those on my hard disk. What convenience! Now for the obligatory questions. After removing an icon from iconlib, the program manager of win3 won't allow the icon to be assigned to a program until it has been read in and out of icondraw -- this works even though I make no changes to the icon. Why? Putting 1000+ icons on a 3.5" HD diskette is easier than it sounds. After about the first 200-300 or so in a single sub-directory, the diskdrives really start to grown and to take a very, very long time to do the copy (and later read). So, I wind up creating multiple sub-directories -- each holding about 150 icons. Why was this necessary? Thanks. -- Joe Wasik, Pac*Bell, 2600 Camino Ramon, Rm 4E750V, San Ramon, CA (415)823-2422 email: jcwasik@clib.PacBell.COM or [...]!pacbell!clib!jcwasik "I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove anything" -- B. Simpson