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- Icons Control v.4.3
- 8/17/95
-
-
- INTRODUCTION
- ------------
- Icons Control is designed to display as many Windows icons as possible in a
- 10x10 grid. Icons can be copied, renamed, and erased with a click of the
- mouse. Icons Control can even display icons embedded inside DLL or EXE files.
- Displayed icons can be edited, converted to bitmaps, or extracted to ICO
- format (in the DLL or EXE viewing mode.) In addition, 32x32-pixel bitmaps
- can also be converted to ICO format for use with Windows 3.1. This version
- offers the ability to convert and extract icons in batch mode, thus saving a
- considerable amount of time for those of you with large number of icons to
- process. Furthermore, any portion of the screen can be captured into an icon
- or bitmap. For a complete description of Icons Control, please refer to the
- help file accessible by clicking on the Help icon from outside as well as
- inside the program.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- ------------
- Run SETUP from the Windows file manager. You will be asked to enter a
- directory to install Icons Control (default is Icnctrl.) For users who
- download the Icons Control package from the internet, you may need to download
- a copy of VBRUN300.DLL from the same site. Since VBRUN300.DLL is about 300K
- and almost everyone running a Visual Basic application have it, I am not
- including it in the zip file to save disk space and download time. Users who
- wish to receive the software on a 3.5" floppy disk will have every files
- needed (including the VBRUN300.DLL) to run the software.
-
- NOTE: During installation, you may run into copying errors such as
- "COMMDLG.DLL IS IN USE. PLEASE CLOSE ALL APLLICATIONS AND RE-ATTEMPT
- SETUP". Just click IGNORE and continue. This is because you don't have
- the file sharing setup properly in your Windows environment. You can
- avoid these warnings by copying the vshare.386 file into your
- \windows\system directory and using a text editor to insert the line
- device=vshare.386 in the [386 Enhanced] section of your system.ini file.
- Otherwise, the software should run normally withou this modification
- despite of the warnings.
-
-
- HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
- ---------------------
- * Any computer running Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 (a 386DX or better is recommended.)
- * A standard VGA (a Windows-accelerated graphic board is recommended.)
- * A mouse or trackball.
- * Sound blaster or compatible device (optional)
-
- Icons Control has been developed and tested on a 486DX66 with 8MB of RAM, a
- 1 MB Diamond Stealth 24 Windows accelerator board (at screen resolutions
- 640x480x16, 640x480x256, 640x480x65536, 800x600x256, 800x600x65536,
- 1024x768x16, and 1024x768x256) and a trackball and mouse. It has also
- been tested on a 100 MHz Pentium-based machine with 16 MB of RAM, a 1 MB
- Diamond Stealth 64 SE (PCI) with the same above settings.
-
- NOTE: Icons Control may not run properly on video modes higher than 65,536
- colors. If you encounter "OUT OF MEMORY" errors when running Icons
- Control, I recommend running Windows at a lower color depth. Some of
- you may confuse between color depth and resolution. Color depth
- determine the number of colors are available for displaying images
- (16, 256, 64K, or 16M (24-bit color.) Screen resolution is the number
- of pixels available on screen (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or 1280x1024.)
-
-
- REGISTRATION
- ------------
- Icons Control is both freeware and shareware. Freeware users are free to use
- it to view, copy, mode, delete, and rename icons. Icons Control even
- displays icons embedded inside DLL and EXE files. The displayed icons cannot
- be extracted, edited, or converted. The extraction, editing, and conversion
- functions are only available in the registered versions (shareware.) There
- is no evaluation period to use Icons Control. You may use it as long as you
- want. But in order to use the above-mentioned functions, you must register
- to obtain the registered version.
-
-
- PAYMENT TERMS
- -------------
- Registration is $25. Registered users will receive the most recent version
- through internet email (uuencoded.) If you prefer to receive the software on
- a 3.5" floppy disk, the fee is $29. As of this writing, I only accept money
- orders, cashier checks, bank checks, or personal checks (MUST be payable
- through a U.S. bank). International users can transfer the $25 fee to my
- Bank of America account directly. This type of payment requires an
- additional $10 because BoA charges my account $10 for the transfer fee.
- Send me e-mail for my account number and confirmation. Compuserve users
- can register on-line and obtain the registered version within 24 hours.
- My Compuserve Author Registration ID is 6825. Please send your check or
- money order to:
-
- Chris Doan
- 4891 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., #401
- San Diego, CA 92117
-
- A single user license permits a user to use Icons Control only on a single
- computer. Licensed users may use the program on different computers as long
- as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it is being
- used at another, or on a network by more than one user at a time.
-
- Thank you for supporting the shareware software concept and encouraging the
- future development of Windows shareware!
-
- Chris Doan
- San Diego, California
- August 1995
-
- doanc@netcom.com
- 102425.1613@compuserve.com
-