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|»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»| | ICONEDIT PRO V1.0 | | Copyright 1995 Hagen Wieshofer | | Shareware Version | | | »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» Table of contents: »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» 1.0 About 'IconEdit Pro' »»» 1.1 What is 'IconEdit Pro' 1.2 Shareware Information 1.3 Revision History 2.0 The Program Area »»» 2.1 The Editor 2.1.1 The Drawing Area 2.1.2 The Vertical Toolbar 2.1.3 The Horizontal Toolbar 2.1.4 The Icon Selection 2.1.5 The Undo Fields 2.1.6 The Drawing Method Selection (Nrml or Scr) 2.1.7 The Colour Palette 2.2 The Menu 2.2.1 File 2.2.2 Edit 2.2.3 Effects 2.2.4 Help 2.3 The Open Dialog 3.0 Keyboard-Shortcuts »»» »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» 1.0 About 'IconEdit Pro' »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» 1.1 What is 'IconEdit Pro' 'IconEdit Pro' is a very powerful and easy to use Icon-Editor and -Browser for Windows. With this Icon-Editor you are able to create icons with up to 256 colours. You can mark, move, mirror or rotate any rectangular area. Icons can be extracted from EXE- and DLL-files and also be cutted out of bitmaps (BMP, RLE) or directly out of the Windows screen. A very interesting utility is the 'Create Shadow' function with which you can create 3D-effects very easily. All icons in a directory, an EXE- or a DLL-file can be shown and printed with or without their filenames. The icons can even be printed in variable size. 1.2 Shareware Information This application is a fully functional Shareware version of the 'IconEdit Pro' Icon-Editor. Shareware allows you to try a program before you buy it. If you like this program and find it useful, you are requested to support it by registering the software. This will entitle you to the latest version of 'IconEdit Pro', notification of updates and other worthwhile things. I've not infested the program with excessive beg notices, crippled it or had it verbally insult you after ten days. I trust you to support 'IconEdit Pro' if you like it. To create this program was a lot of work and I hope you will support this and further work on the program. *************************************************************** * The price for the registered version is only ATS 99,-- or * * DEM 15,-- or USD 11,--. * *************************************************************** To register please use the entry 'Register' in the menu 'Help' or just print the file 'REGISTER.TXT' an send it to the given address. Thank you for your honesty! 1.3 Revision History To now there is no history to 'IconEdit Pro' only much, much work and I hope you will support this and further work with your registration. »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» 2.0 The Program Area »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» 2.1 The Editor The Editor is the main part of the program. It consists of a big drawing area, a vertical toolbar on the left side of it and a horizontal toolbar above it. On the right side is a selection for four icons, below it are two Undo-Fields and below these there is a selection for the drawing method (normal- or screen colour). On the right side of the editor there is a colour palette and at the top a menu with the items: File, Edit, Effects and Help. 2.1.1 The Drawing Area On the drawing area the current icon is displayed magnified. By clicking with the left mouse button the current tool will be applied. By clicking with the right mouse button the colour under the mousepointer will be defined as the active colour. 2.1.2 The Vertical Toolbar The vertical toolbar is devided into drawing- and working tools. I think the drawing tools do not require a special explanation. These seven are available: - Freehand Drawing - Line - Rectangle - Filled Rectangle - Ellipse (Circle) - Filled Ellipse (Circle) - Fill Below them are the following working tools: - Mark - Flip Vertical - Flip Horizontal - Rotate in 90░ steps to the left - Rotate in 90░ steps to the right If an area is marked then all these special tools, such as 'Rotate' or 'Flip' will apply only to this area, otherwise to the whole drawing area. 2.1.3 The Horizontal Toolbar The first four tools correspond to the items 'New, Open, Save, Print' from the menu 'File' (see 2.1.8). The next tool will switch the grid on the drawing area on and off. The next two tools correspond to the items 'Create Shadow, Change Colour' from to the menu 'Effects'. The X- and Y-indications correspond to the cursor position on the drawing area and the [x]- and [y]-indications correspond to the relative co-ordinates of a tool (for example: The length and width of a rectangle). 2.1.4 The Icon Selection With this selection it is possible to work with four icons at one time. The active icon is displayed pointed out and can be changed to an other by a mouseclick. 2.1.5 The Undo-Fields With the two Undo-Fields you can undo the last two changes. A mouseclick on one of these fields is enough to undo. 2.1.6 The Drawing Method Selection This selection gives you the possibility to draw with 'normal colour (Nrml)' or to draw with 'screen colour (Scr)'. All points that are drawn with 'screen colour' will appear transparent in the icon so that the background of the Windows- environment shines through. In a new icon all points are set to 'screen colour'. Example: If you create a new icon and then draw a line and save this icon and apply it to a program, you will see this line and the rest of the icon is transparent - so the rest does not need to be white as you see it in the Editor! The 'screen colour' has one other function: It is used to delete previously set points. Example: If you draw a line with a 'normal colour' and then want to delete it, it is not enough to paint over it with a normal white colour. The line is still there, you only can't see it because the background is also white. In order to make this line visible you only have to change the background colour. In order to delete this line you have to overpaint it with the 'screen colour'. 2.1.7 The colour palette You can choose a colour with the left mouse button. There are two different palettes. One for 16 and one for 256 colours. These distinction is important for the storage of an icon. If the 256-Colour-Palette is used the icon will be saved as a 256- Colour-Icon, otherwise as a 16-Colour-Icon. The difference is that a 256-Colour-Icon looks much better but you only can view it in high- or truecolour mode. In the 256-Colour-Mode of Windows you can only use the 16-Colour-Palette! Attention: If you change from the 256-Colour-Palette to the 16- Colour-Palette, all colours that are not standard colours (black, blue, green, cyan, red, violet, yellow, white, grey, light blue, light green, light cyan, light red, light violet, light yellow and light white) will be lost (don't panic, of course you can undo this...)! On the bottom of the colour palette there is a button with the caption 'Maximize' that can only be pressed if the 256-Colour- Palette is used. If you press this button then the caption changes to 'Minimize' and three slidebars (red, green, blue) appear. With this slidebars you can define your own colours. On the right side of these controls are two buttons. One to save the current palette and one to load a saved palette. The starting palette is called 'STANDARD.PAL' and is located in the same directory as 'ICONEDIT.PRO'. 2.2 The menu 2.2.1 File New: Creates a new icon. The current icon is deleted. You can choose whether you want to create a 16- or 256-Colour- Icon. A 256-Colour-Icon can only be created if you run Windows in high- or truecolour mode. Open: Loads an icon, extracts an icon from an EXE- or DLL-file, cuts an icon out of a bitmap. (see 2.3) Save: Saves the current icon. A dialog appears where you can define a name and a directory. If you have saved the icon before then this dialog will not appear and the icon will be saved with the already given name. If you want to define an other name you can use 'Save As'. Save as: Same as 'Save' but the save-dialog will appear always. Save All: Same as 'Save' but all four icons will be saved. Print: A dialog appears where you can choose which of the four icons should be printed. You can also choose more than one icon. Furtheron you can state the size of the printed icons. '1' means normal size, '2' double size,... The maximum size depends on the printer setting. Printer Setting: Opens the standard Printer-Settings-Dialog. Quit: Quits 'IconEdit Pro'. 2.2.2 Edit Copy: Copies the marked area to the clipboard (not the Windows clipboard!). If no area is marked, the whole icon will be copied. Paste: Pastes the copied area into the active icon. If you copy from a 256-Colour-Icon to a 16-Colour-Icon all colours will be changed to standard colours (black, blue, green, cyan, red, violet, yellow, white, grey, light blue, light green, light cyan, light red, light violet, light yellow and light white) Delete Marked Area: Deletes the marked area. Change to XXX Colours: Changes a 256-Colour-Icon to a 16-Colour- Icon or vice versa. If you change to a 16-Colour-Icon all colours will be changed to standard colours (see above). You only can change to 256 colours if you run Windows in high- or truecolour mode. 2.2.3 Effects: Flip Horizontal: Flips the marked area horizontally. If no area is marked, the whole icon will be flipped. Flip Vertical: Flips the marked area vertically. If no area is marked, the whole icon will be flipped. Rotate Left: Rotates the marked area counter-clockwise. The rotated area is moved to the upper left corner. If no area is marked, the whole icon will be rotated. Rotate Right: Rotates the marked area clockwise. The rotated area is moved to the upper left corner. If no area is marked, the whole icon will be rotated. Create Shadow: With this function you can create 3D-Effects very easily. To create a shadow, just choose the colour of the shadow (left-click on the palette) and then select 'Create Shadow' from the menu 'Effects'. A dialog appears where you can choose the X- and Y- position (depth) of the shadow. The 'screen colour' has a special function: Normally a shadow will be created from each point painted with 'normal colour'. If you draw a filled rectangle and in this rectangle a line to which you want to apply a shadow, a shadow will be created only from the rectangle because all points were set with normal colour. To avoid this, just set the 'screen colour' to the colour of the rectangle (left- click on the option-button 'Scr' and then right-click on the rectangle). If you now create a shadow, the shadow will be applied only to the line. You can set back the 'screen colour' afterwards. Change Colours: Changes one colour to an other. Choose a colour from the palette and then select 'Change Colour' from the menu 'Effects'. The mousepointer changes to an 'Up- arrow'. Now left-click on the colour on the drawing- area which you want to change with the previously selected. If no area is marked the colour will be changed in the whole icon, otherwise only in the marked area. 2.2.4 Help English Help: Shows this help. To search for a notion, just write the word in the text-box near the search-button (or simply double-click on the word or just mark a text) and then press the search-button. If the word exists, the program will jump to this word and high- light it. If you want to see if the word does exist more than one time, just press the search-button again. If it doesn't exist you will hear a 'beep'. If you then again click on the button the search will start on the beginning of the text. Deutsche Hilfe: Shows the german help. Register (englisch): Prints the englisch Registration-Form. You can also print it with an other program (file manager, ...). The name of the file is 'REGIST-E.TXT' and is located in the same directory as 'ICONEDI.EXE'. Registrierung (deutsch): Prints the german Registration-Form. Info: Shows some information about the system-resources an about 'IconEdit Pro'. In the Shareware version this dialog will appear every time at the beginning and the end of the program. Just register to get rid of it. 2.3 The Open-Dialog The open-dialog is devided into three parts. The first one on the upper left corner contains an icon-selection that corresponds to the one in the editor. On the right side of it is a button with which you can print all icons in the active directory. If you press this button a diolog will appear where you can define if you want to print the icons with or without their filenames underneath. The second part, underneath the first, contains a filename-, a directory- and a selection-box. The third part shows all icons of the current directory (if the option 'Show all icons' in the first part is checked) and if you want to cut from an image it shows this image. Loading an icon: Choose the position in the icon-selection to which you want to load it. Go to the directory where the icon is located and simply click on its picture on the right side or on its filename on the left. Extracting an icon from an EXE- or DLL-file: Choose the entry '*.EXE; *.DLL' in the selection-box (underneath the filename-box). Go to the directory where the EXE or DLL is located and click on its filename. All icons in this EXE- or DLL-file will be displayed on the right side. Just click on the one you want. Cutting an icon from a bitmap: Choose the entry '*.BMP; *.RLE' in the selection-box. Go to the directory where the BMP- or RLE-file is located and click on its filename. The image will be displayed on the right side. Above the image you can choose: Take iconsized cut: You can take a cut of the size of an icon (32 x 32 Pixel). Click in the image and wait till a square appears (this may take some seconds with large pictures). This square you can move arround. Take ownsized cut: You can take a cut of the size that you want. Click in the image and stretch a rectangle (with pressed shift-key a square). You can also stretch over the visible area (the more, the faster). Take whole picture: The whole picture is sized to the size of an icon (32 x 32 pixel). Notice: The button 'Print all icons' has changed to 'Capture screen'. With this button the whole screen is captured and shown on the right side. Then you can cut out icons as desribed above. »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» 3.0 Keyboard-Shortcuts »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» Besides the Strg-Combinations (given in the menus) you can use the following keys (without <Strg> or <Alt> ...): s: Save a: Save All c: Change Colour h: Flip Horizontally v: Flip Vertically n: New o: Open p: Print q: Quit u: Undo The following keys you can use in high- or true-colour mode: r: Increase the red-value by 8 g: Increase the green-value by 8 b: Increase the blue-value by 8 R: Decrease the red-value by 8 G: Decrease the green -value by 8 B: Decrease the blue -value by 8 __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ I wish you a lot of fun with beeing creative! »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»» Please report bugs, suggestions, whishes, ... to: |»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»| | Hagen Wieshofer | | Schlo▀berg 9 | | A-6391 Fieberbrunn | | | | E-Mail: Hagen.Wieshofer@uibk.ac.at | | | »»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»