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- 10/5/90
- Quick Docs to:
- VIEWICON, GETICON, and PUTICON
-
- These programs are designed to operate in some way on Windows 3.0 icons.
- They seem to work fine on my machine but very much testing has not been done -
- so I give no guarentee that they work correctly for you.
-
- VIEWICON
-
- Views Windows 3.0 icons on the screen.
-
- Type: VIEWICON -h to get a small help screen.
-
- OPTIONS:
- -l Display filenames along with icons.
- (Actually only the 8 char name - no extension.)
- -t Tight display - no space between icons.
- -w Set background color to white instead of black.
- -e Force EGA display mode instead of VGA.
-
- Wildcards in filename views many icons at once.
- The current dir is read for *.* by default.
- A maximum of 2000 files can be read at once.
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- EXAMPLES:
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- VIEWICON -l C:\WINDOWS
- VIEWICON -l C:\WINDOWS\*.*
- VIEWICON -l C:\WINDOWS\
- views any icons found in the Windows directory
-
- VIEWICON
- views any icons found in the current directory
-
-
- GETICON
-
- Extracts Windows 3.0 icons from a .EXE or .DLL file.
- Puts icons found in the .EXE or .DLL into seperate files.
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- Type: GETICON -h to get a small help screen.
-
- OPTIONS:
- -w Set background color to white instead of black.
- -e Force EGA display mode instead of VGA.
-
- Wildcards in filename views many icons at once.
- The current dir is read for *.* by default.
- A maximum of 2000 files can be read at once.
-
- You will be given this prompt for each icon found:
- E)xtract, S)kip icon, A)ll, Q)uit file
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- Extract: create a file from the displayed icon
- Skip: don't do anything with this icon
- All: extracts all icons left in the current .EXE or .DLL being
- viewed.
- Quit: skip the rest of the icons in this file.
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- EXAMPLES:
-
- GETICON C:\WINDOWS\CALC.EXE
- (show first icon of a calculator)
- E)xtract, S)kip icon, A)ll, Q)uit file
- press 'E'
- File Name:
- type filename to save to
- (file is created of that one icon)
-
- GETICON C:\WINDOWS\CLOCK.EXE
- (show first icon of a clock)
- E)xtract, S)kip icon, A)ll, Q)uit file
- press 'A'
- Base File Name:
- type filename of, say "BASE.ICO"
- (BASE1.ICO and BASE2.ICO are created)
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- PUTICON
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- Overwrites a Windows 3.0 Icon in a Windows file.
- Can be used to make minimized windows use your icon of choice.
-
- *WARNING* make backups before writing to any file.
-
- Type: PUTICON -h to get a small help screen.
-
- PUTICON -we {source file} {destination file}
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- OPTIONS:
- -w Set background color to white instead of black.
- -e Force EGA display mode instead of VGA.
- {source file}
- File containing a Windows 3.0 icon that you want to
- put into the destination file.
- {destination file}
- File containing a Windows 3.0 icon that you want to
- replace from the source file.
- *WARNING* backup this file FIRST.
-
- EXAMPLE:
-
- COPY \WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WINOA386.MOD WINOA386.BAK
- PUTICON GK_DOS.ICO \WINDOWS\SYSTEM\WINOA386.MOD
- (shows icon of a "C:> prompt")
- Use this icon as the SOURCE?
- press 'Y'
- File Name:
- type filename to save to
- (shows icon of 2 color minimized DOS application)
- Use this icon as the DESTINATION?
- press 'N'
- (shows icon of minimized DOS application)
- Use this icon as the DESTINATION?
- press 'Y'
- (new icon is saved to the WINOA386.MOD file)
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-
- You may use, copy and distribute these programs any way you see fit since they
- are not copyrighted.
-
- EGA or VGA is a must and the programs are DOS applications. I'd make them
- Windows apps if someone is willing to give me a Windows SDK :-)
- They can be run under Windows, but I don't recommend it as it slooows it down
- plenty.
-
- Well, that's enough to get you up and running. If I've left something out
- that you would like to see or if you don't like the way I did something, let
- me know!
-
- Please direct any comments/suggestions/complaints to:
-
- garyk@cbnewsk.att.com
-
- All programs were created in Microsoft C V6.0 and MASM V5.1.
-