Discolour works only under System 7 on color-capable Macintoshes.
Discolour is a system extension for System 7.0 and later that rectifies
a shortcoming in the wonderful Finder 7.0: floppy disk icons are
displayed as the ugly old black and white icon while the rest of the
desktop is bursting with color!
Discolour causes the Finder to display beautiful full-color icons in
place of the black and white floppy disk icons when you are in 16 color
mode or greater. Just drag Discolour onto your System Folder icon and
restart your Macintosh to activate it.
Discolour uses less than 1K of memory once it is installed, and was
optimized so that it won't slow your Macintosh down, so the cost
of having beautiful color disk icons is minimal.
Discolour is completely free; I hope you enjoy it!
If you like this software, come visit our forum on America Online and see what else we have to offer. While you are online, choose "Keyword..." from the "GO TO" menu, type Ambrosia and hit the return key. You'll be taken to our forum, where you'll find a message base (for comments and questions) and a software library stocked with the latest versions of our software products.
Contact Information
If you have any problems with this software or if you require additional information, please write or call:
US Mail:
Ambrosia Software, Inc.
PO Box 23140
Rochester, NY 14692
Voice:
716.427.2577
Fax:
716.475.9289
E-mail:
America Online: AmbrosiaSW
Compuserve: 73424, 1226
AppleLink: Ambrosia.SW
Internet: AmbrosiaSW@AOL.com
Notes for Hackers
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If you don't like the icon I provided for Discolour, you CAN change it
with ResEdit, but there are some precautions. The resources you
will need to change are 'icl4' #256 (the 16 color floppy disk icon)
and 'icl8' #256 (the 256 and greater color floppy disk icon). Here
are some things to keep in mind:
1) Work only on a COPY of Discolour in case you screw something up.
2) DO NOT modify the 'ICN#' #256 (b/w floppy disk icon) or the
floppy disk icon mask; this will cause Discolour to no longer work.
3) DO NOT distribute modified versions of Discolour.
4) Use only the Apple recommended colors in the 256 color icons so that
the icons will dim properly when they are clicked on.
5) Make sure the color disk icons you create fit exactly within the