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- INTRODUCTION
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- DOSICON is a utility to add variety to the DOS icon on the WINDOWS 3.0
- desktop. This program is for Windows users who have downloaded many .ICO
- icon files for their DOS programs, but are frustrated by the bland DOS icon
- that is displayed when the DOS application is minimized. If you hate the
- DOS icon on your desktop, then this program is for you!
- Please support this shareware program by sending in a small registration fee
- of $10.
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- FEATURES
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- Displays minimized DOS applications with user defined icons.
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- Can be hidden or displayed on desktop as icon.
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- Works in both Enhanced and Standard modes.
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- No irritating, repeated requests for registration. This keeps the
- size of the program small.
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- Support for icon resources in .DLL, .ICO and .EXE files.
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- Works with high resolution monitors.
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- REGISTRATION
-
- This is not freeware! This program has no security measures against
- unregistered users, so I depend on your honesty to continue to support
- and enhance this program. If you like this program, and want to continue
- to use it, please send a one time $10 contribution to:
-
- Kok Hong Soh
- 1504, N. Rogers Road
- Apt 1106, Olathe,
- KS 66062
-
- Please include your mailing address or your bix name so that you can receive
- your registration number. Registered users of versions earlier than 1.01
- need not fear - I will mail you your registration number soon.
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- USING DOSICON
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- 1. Copy the files DOSICON.EXE, DOSICON.INI (the initialization file) and
- DOSICON.WRI files to your Windows directory. You may move DOSICON.EXE to
- another directory later, but DOSICON.INI must be in your Windows directory,
- ie. the directory that your Windows program is in. Run DOSICON.EXE and click
- on the Edit DOSICON option in the system menu.
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- 2. The Edit dialog box is the major improvement over previous versions -
- it presents a more user-friendly of setting up the icons you wish to associate
- with your DOS applications. There are two list boxes - one for the window
- caption titles (the text displayed on the top of your windowed DOS application
- or when it is minimized) listed in the initialization file, and one for the
- icon files in the current directory. There is also an edit box for adding new
- caption titles to the initialization file.
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- 3. The Add button will be enabled when there is text within the window
- caption edit box and the file selected contains valid icons. This button is
- used to add or update DOSICON by requesting it to support any DOS application
- with the new caption title. ie. any minimized DOS application with the same
- caption title displayed in the edit box will be displayed on the desktop the
- same icon as the one in the icon window.
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- 4. The Delete button will be enabled when one of the caption titles in
- the initialization file is listed in the edit box. This button is used to
- inform DOSICON to discontinue support for that particular DOS application with
- that caption title. You should also do this if you want to change the caption
- title of a DOS application which you previously wanted DOSICON to support.
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- 5. The Next and Prev buttons will be enabled when there is more than one
- icon in the EXE/DLL file. These buttons will allow the user to cycle through
- the icons in the EXE/DLL file easily.
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- 6. You can also indicate how you want DOSICON to start up - hidden or
- shown on the desktop as an icon. If you are initially playing around with it,
- I advise you to run it displayed so that you can easily add new DOS apps that
- you want to support as you work in Windows. If you want to display DOSICON
- after it is hidden, just run the program again.
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- FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS
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- Try to support Real Mode. I am not sure if I can do that because
- I wrote this program using Borland C++. And the Borland rep says that it is
- not possible to write real mode Windows programs with its product.
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- History
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- 1.01 Fixed problem of displaying icon in 256 color mode.
- Previously, only half of the icon was displayed.
- Improved memory management - I left many bitmap and
- icon objects dangling without destroying them when they are no longer needed -
- I'm surprised my system never crashed under such gross memory mismanagement!
- Can display icons in EXE files.
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- 1.02 Icon will be displayed immediately when the RELOAD option in
- the system menu is selected. In the previous version, if a DOS app on the
- desktop has the old DOS icon and you use Edit DOSICON.INI to select an icon
- for that DOS app, the icon will not be displayed when you select the Reload
- DOSICON.INI item in the system menu. The icon would only be painted if you
- force that application to repaint itself by moving something over it and then
- uncovering it. This has been fixed in this version.
- Can display icons in DLL files.
- Improved editing of DOSICON.INI file.
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- 1.03 Fixed bug of displaying 2-color 32x16 icons.
- Enhanced Edit Dialog Box by including Prev button.
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- BUG REPORTS / REQUESTS
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- Please mail bug reports/requests to kokhong on BIX.
- Run DOSICON.EXE and click on the Edit DOSICON option.
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