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Icons Control 4.4f
10/29/95
INTRODUCTION
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Icons Control is designed to display as many Windows icons as possible in a
10x10 grid. Icons can be copied, renamed, moved, and erased with a click of
the mouse. Hardcopy of icons can be printed on any printer supported by
Windows. 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. Conversion and extraction can be done 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
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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.
HARDWARE/SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
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* Any computer running Windows 3.1/Windows 95.
* A standard VGA (a Windows-accelerated graphic board is recommended.)
* A mouse or trackball.
* Any printer supported by Windows (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), 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
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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
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Registration is $25. Registered users will receive the latest 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 7437. A collection of over 1,600
icons sorted in 25 different categories is also available for an additional
$10, please see the REGISTER.TXT file for more info. Please fill in the
information sheet in the REGISTER.TXT form and mail it along with your
payment 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.
A site license is required by a corporation, company, educational institution,
or governmental agency for use of Icons Control software on the total number
of computers that will use the software.
Thank you for supporting the shareware software concept and encouraging the
future development of Windows shareware!
Chris Doan
San Diego, California
October 1995
doanc@netcom.com
102425.1613@compuserve.com