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***************************************************************************** HERMES' ICONLAB (Version 1.1) Copyright (c) 1988 A. G. Kartsatos *** Shareware *** TO RUN IT IMMEDIATELY: CLI: PRESS "ICONLAB" or "RUN ICONLAB". WORKBENCH: CLICK into the ICONLAB icon. TO EXIT: PRESS the TAB KEY or CLICK into the LONG RECTANGLE at the BOTTOM RIGHT of the screen. To get out from a LARGE ICON or A LARGE PICTURE, JUST CLICK INTO IT. PLEASE TRY NOT TO MULTI-TASK THIS PROGRAM. IT USES A LOT O MEMORY FOR THE BITMAPS OF PICTURES AND BRUSHES. First of all, I would like to thank all my friends out there who took the time to study the 1st version of this program and send me their comments and their suggestions. Special thanks are due to Barb Hamilton (Elverta, CA) and Jeff White (The Wizard, Tampa, FL). I hope that I have corrected all the bugs that I have discovered or have been reported to me. This is the definitive work on icons on the Amiga computer. In addtion to its ability to show and save icons (Version 1.0) it can now do the following: SPLIT ICONS JOIN ICONS SHOW BRUSHES AS ICONS (What they would look like if you made icons out them. They are shown in your personal Workbench colors and MEDIUM resolution) SHOW BRUSHES AS IFF PICTURES SAVE ANY BRUSHES AS ICONS It works with any size icons and/or brushes including sizes that fill the entire screen. To LOAD an ICON, just click into its name on the left and then click into the LOAD gadget. To VIEW A BRUSH or an IFF PICTURE, just click into its name on the left and then click into the SHOW gadget. NEW GADGETS: (1) SPLIT: SPLITTING an icon, means creating an icon whose image is the alternate image of the given icon. Thus, you CAN ONLY SPLIT ICONS WITH TWO IMAGES. LOAD an icon and click into the SPLIT gadget. If the icon has two images, you will be asked to enter the name of the new icon (whose image will be second image of the loaded icon). Enter a valid pathname, like DF0:Baby, or DH1:Hello/Baby, or just Baby. You don't need to add .info at the end. The program will do that for you. But, if you do add .info, no problem. Now, if you want AN ICON WITH THE FIRST IMAGE OF THE LOADED ICON, just save the present icon with high- lighting BACKFILL or COMPLEMENT, but not IMAGE. (2) JOIN: JOINING TWO ICONS, means creating a new icon with images from both icons. For example, let's say you have two icons with names Baby.info and Fires.info. You want to make a new icon whose first image is the first image of Baby.info and its second image is the first image of Fires.info. Thus, you want to cre- ate a two-image icon from the first images of the two given icons. Let's say the name of the resulting icon is DF1:BabyFires.info. Here is how you do it: 1. LOAD the icon Baby.info. 2. Click into the JOIN gadget. 3. Enter the name DF1:BabyFires in the requestor gadget. That's it! The program will inform you as to whether your new icon has been created. (3) SHOW: This gadget allows you to view a BRUSH (or any IFF picture) in two ways: 1. You can view it as an ICON. This means that you can view your brush or IFF in the colors of your Workbench and MEDIUM resolution. MEDIUM resolution is the resolution of a normal Workbench. Thus, no matter what the resolution or size of your IFF is, you'll see it as if you had created an ICON from it. This you can certainly do with the next gadget. 2. You can view it as an IFF file. Well, you know what this means. You just view the brush/picture in its colors. However, if the brush is an incomplete IFF file, IT IS SHOWN ONLY IN MEDIUM RESOLUTION. The IFF files/brushes we are talking about here, could be OVERSCAN pictures in any resolution. Naturally, if the picture is a 4-color MEDIUM resolution one, the ICON viewing is identical to the IFF viewing, except for the fact that a brush will be centered on your screen. Now, take notice of the fact that when you show a HIRES (640x400) picture as a MEDRES (640x200) picture, you lose the lower 200 lines! So, don't be surprised, when this takes place with HIRES pictures shown as ICONS. Also, if you want to SAVE a picture that you are cur- rently viewing as an icon, just have your HERMiT on. This program is like GRABBiT and you will love it. Just click into the file name on the left, and then click into the SHOW gadget. If your file is a legiti- mate IFF/BRUSH file, a requestor will ask you whether you want to view it as an IFF picture or as a BRUSH. You can do either one of these. However, if you cannot see a brush as an IFF picture (believe it or not, there are some overscan brushes out there) try the PANIC button. It might work! The PANIC button tries to depict a brush as a LOWRES overscan picture starting at the coordinates (-16,0). It has worked with the BrushWorks LORES brushes. I would like to thank David Stanton (Ohio) for pointing those brushes out to me. "Res." on the Brush Window stands for RESOLUTION. It will give you the resolution of an IFF picture. There is no resolution for a brush! Just bitplanes. CLICK INTO THE SCREEN to get rid of the IFF/BRUSH screen and get back into the main panel. This function can be particularly useful when you want to cut a piece of a picture as a brush for an icon (using Deluxe Paint) and you would like to know what that picture looks like with your Workbench colors and resolution. You also want to check which piece looks good for a potential icon. (3) B-->I: This means BRUSH TO ICON. You use this gadget to create an icon from a given brush. A brush is nothing else than your usual IFF picture with dimensions smaller than those of the normal IFF's. For example a brush can have width 50 and height 125, but regular IFF format picture files start at width 320 and height 200. You CAN SAVE ANY BRUSH INTO AN ICON! This includes even overscan pictures. But REMEMBER: The icon will carry the colors of your Workbench and MEDIUM resolu- tion (the normal Workbench resolution). To see what your icon would look like (coming out of a brush), use the ICON option of the SHOW gadget. To use BRUSH TO ICON, just click into a BRUSH/IFF file name on the left and then click into the B-->I gadget. If the file is legitimate, the program will ask you for the name of the resulting file. Enter a legitimate file name (you can include paths) and there is your icon! The program will refresh the listing of the files after each saving or deletion. It will do that even if you save into another volume/directory. Please do not click too fast into the file names on the left. Press firmly on the left mouse button to see the white hilighting first. THIS IS A SHAREWARE PROGRAM. IF YOU USE THE PROGRAM, PLEASE SEND $15.00 TO A. G. Kartsatos 8524 Caladesi Island Drive Tampa, FL 33637, USA Other programs by the author: PALETTA.ARC (Color Mixing, Modifying IFF's, Random Colors) CALCULA.ARC (An Expression Parser And A Function Evaluator. Unique!) SIMPLICA.ARC (The Simplex Method Of Linear Programming) ROST.ARC (Reports On Storage And Tasks On Their Windows. Useful!) LISTA11.ARC (Very Useful Directory Lister. Alpha, Bytes, Patterns, CLI, Refresh. Opens Its Own Window) SCRIPTA.ARC (Online!-PCP Script Maker. Easy Online! Script Files!) FORMULA!.ARC (FORMIDABLE 3D-Grapher In C. It graphs z = f(x,y). Choice Of Colors. 17 Functions Supported. An Artist's Tool) FINANCA.ARC (Mortgage, Compound Interest And Annuity) CONTOURA.ARC (SPECTACULAR Contour Grapher. Definitely An Artist's Tool. CENTER, ZOOM IN, ZOOM OUT, FLOWING PALETTE...) ARCHA11.ARC (ARC-PAK-ZOO Utility. It Also Has Another 12 Utility Gadgets And 7 Drive Gadgets. Only 29K, It Can Be Used As An Efficient Directory Utility) DUHERM27.ARC (Beautiful Directory Utility. A multitude Of Functions. 72 Gadgets Out Of Which 48 Are User-configurable! One Of The Major Powerful DirUtils For The Amiga) VIEWOVER.ARC (This Is The Program View (V. 1.8) With Overscan Capability By HERMES. Very Small (About 6K) And Very Convenient) HERMIT.ARC (This Program Allows You To Save/Cycle Your Front Screen. It resides In The Background And "Listens" To Your Key- board For HOT KEYS. Nice And Only About 15K Long) Feel free to distribute this program, with this doc intact, to any bulletin boards and other non-profit establishments in the US and abroad. You may also upload this program to major boards like Compuserve, Delphi, GEnie, PLink, etc. The inclusion of this program, or any part of it, in any form in a commercial package, or its use for any commercial purposes, requires the written permission of the author. FOR SUPPORT, CALL *HERMES BBS* IN TAMPA, FL. TELEPHONE: 813-985-7624. 70 MEG OF STORAGE, 1500 FILES ONLINE, GOOD MESSAGE BASE. ALTHOUGH IT IS A PRIVATE BOARD, YOU MAY LEAVE A MESSAGE TO THE SYSOP CONCERNING ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS YOU MIGHT HAVE ABOUT HERMES' PROGRAMS. The usual disclaimers apply concerning the use of software. Although I and other people have tested this program before release, use at your own risk. I would really appreciate knowing your comments and suggestions. In the meanwhile have fun with this program and remember that it is SHAREWARE! So long! @@-->>> HERMES HERMES' ICONLAB (Version 1.0) Here is a nice program that will let you see your icons and their alternate images without having to go to the Workbench. I wrote it because I am tired of having to construct a new icon for a drawer in order to see all the icons in it from the Workbench. I also don't like to scroll a Workbench window to see the icons in it when it is full of them. The program will also allow you to change various icon parameters like ICON TYPE, HIGHLIGHTING, DEFAULT TOOL, TOOL TYPES and STACK. To SEE an ICON, choose it from the file requester table and then click into the LOAD gadget. To see its ALTERNATE image, just click into the TOGGLE gadget. You can thus toggle between the two images of an icon provided there is an alternate image. Just because an icon changes colors when you click into it, it does not necessarily mean that there is an alternate image. GADGETS: 9 DRIVES: The nine DRIVE gadgets on the left allow you to attach to anyone of those drives. If you don't have VD0:, or VDK, or any one of the other drives, it does not matter. Just cancel the requestor when it shows up. The program starts by attaching first to your RAM: volume. From THEN on you can attach to any one of 9 drives by clicking into them. YOU CAN ALSO ATTACH TO ANY DRIVE/DIRECTORY BY ENTERING IT INTO THE DRAWER GADGET AND THEN PRESSING <RETURN>. PARENT: This gadget allows you to attach to the parent directory, if you are not already at the top. LOAD: The LOAD gadget loads an icon into the large rectangular area on the right. If the icon is bigger than that area, it auto- matically gets loaded into its own window, whose dimensions are commensurable with those of the icon itself. Before you load an icon, you must click into its name (ending with .info) first. SAVE: You may change the following characteristics of an icon: ICON TYPE, HIGHLIGHTING, DEFAULT TOOL, TOOL TYPES, STACK You should always use the up/down arrows to change the para- meters in ICON TYPE and HIGHLIGHTING. You can thus change ANY icon type to ANY other icon type very easily. Don't change the highlighting to IMAGE if the icon does not already have an ALTERNATE image. Remember: if you change the ICON TYPE to DISK and its name is disk.info, you usually need to reboot in order to see the icon on the Workbench. Actually, I attach to the directory with the new disk icon and then I LoadWb. This should do it too! You can load your Workbench several times. You do not have to exit CLI after LoadWb. The SAVE gadget saves the icon to the pathname given by the user in the DRAWER/FILE gadgets. The program does check to see if the volume/directory in the DRAWER gadget exists. Make sure that the parameters on the right are the ones that you actually want to save. Again, use the ADD and DEL gadgets in order to ADD and DELETE TOOL TYPES, respectively. Otherwise, your icons will not be saved right. TOGGLE: Toggles between the main and the alternate image of the icon that has been loaded. DELETE: Deletes the file whose pathname is in the DRAWER/FILE gadgets. ATTENTION: (1) If your icon is TOO BIG, its window will not have a TOGGLE and an EXIT gadget. Just PRESS "T" or "t" to see its alternate icon and "Q" or "q" (or just click into it) to exit into the main window. (2) If you get the message: "Cannot Open The Icon Window", EXIT the program because you don't have enough memory left to open a large icon's window. @@-->>> HERMES *****************************************************************************