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- June 20, 1994
-
- This is the README.TXT file distributed with Icon
- Manager version 3.4a.
-
- OVERVIEW
- --------
- Icon Manager is a powerful tool for working with
- icons in the Windows operating environment. The
- same drag-and-drop interface used by Program Manager
- allows icons to easily be moved, copied, and organ-
- ized into files within Icon Manager. Unlike other
- applications which offer awkward procedures for
- installing icons into Program Manager, Icon Manager
- will install icons into Program Manager or Norton
- Desktop DIRECTLY using the wizardry of Windows'
- Dynamic Data Exchange. For those who would like
- to create or edit their own icons, Icon Manager
- taps the power of OLE to whisk you into a edit
- session with Paintbrush by just double-clicking on
- an icon. All of these features and more make
- Icon Manager the most complete icon tool available
- for the Windows operating environment.
-
-
- REGISTRATION
- ------------
- Icon Manager is not free software. It is released
- as shareware, which provides the opportunity for
- the program to be evaluated before it is purchased.
-
- We hope that after you try Icon Manager you will
- like it so much that you will want to register.
- By doing so you are voting with your pocketbook for
- us to continue developing high-quality, Windows
- shareware.
-
- Complete information on how to register Almanac
- is included in the REGISTER.TXT file.
-
-
- DOCUMENTATION
- -------------
- Icon Manager includes on-line help that covers all
- aspects of program operation. Some customers have
- asked why Icon Manager does not come with an oper-
- ations manual. The main reason for this is that
- since the first release of Icon Manager in 1990,
- Impact Software has never asked registered users
- for an upgrade fee. New versions that users
- acquire from their shareware channel continue to
- honor earlier registrations. By including on-line
- help with each release, we are able to provide up-
- to-date information for new and old customers
- alike.
-
- This is not intended to suggest that upgrades
- will always be free, but rather that this method
- of providing documentation makes it easier for
- us to provide no-charge updates when possible.
-
-
- INSTALLING ICON MANAGER
- -----------------------
- The Icon Manager package includes a graphical Windows
- installation program using the standard name of SETUP.EXE.
- You should place all of the files included in the package
- on a floppy disk or in a temporary directory of your hard
- drive.
-
- SETUP requires about 210K bytes of hard disk space to
- complete the installation of Icon Manager.
-
- Run SETUP by selecting the 'Run...' command from the
- File menu of Program Manager or File Manager. Enter
- "d:\SETUP" as the Command Line, where "d" is the
- drive/directory that you are installing Icon Manager FROM
- (i.e. A:\SETUP).
-
- SETUP will prompt for the target directory you would like
- to install Icon Manager to on your hard disk. Accept the
- default or enter a directory of your choice. Select OK
- to install Icon Manager.
-
- UPDATES IN THE 3.4a RELEASE OF ICON MANAGER
- -------------------------------------------
- Version 3.a is a maintenance release provided
- to correct minor problems reported since the
- release of version 3.4.
-
- Specifically, the following items have
- been corrected:
-
- - A GPF would occur when dragging an icon
- into the display port of the Tool
- Window.
-
- - The light and dark grays would swap
- when an ICA (archive) file was saved
- in an ICL (library) file format.
-
- - The "Select All" command would GPF
- when used on a file that contained an
- exact multiple of 32 icons.
-
-
- NEW FEATURES IN THE 3.4 RELEASE OF ICON MANAGER
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- The following additions and changes have been added in
- the 3.4 release of Icon Manager:
-
- - The program has been generally updated to
- make it a more solid application when
- it encounters unknown or bad data, and
- to provide feedback to the user to indicate
- the source of the problem.
-
- - The Status bar now displays the progress
- while sorting (aligning) icons and the
- progress of multiple icon moves or copies.
-
- - A Most Recent Used (MRU) file list has
- been added to the File menu. The last
- four files that are opened or saved will
- be available at the end of the File menu
- for quick access.
-
- - Sometimes the icon Arrange commands would
- cause an error in version 3.3. This has
- been corrected.
-
- - The overall presentation of the program
- has been updated with the buttonface
- texture and 3D dialog look.
-
-
- NEW FEATURES IN THE 3.3 RELEASE OF ICON MANAGER
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- The following additions and changes have been added in
- the 3.3 release of Icon Manager:
-
- - A bug in the "Install Icon" routine would
- sometimes not quite complete the installation
- of an icon into a Program Item for a
- non-Windows application. This has been
- corrected - icons should install faithfully
- 100% of the time.
-
- - Icon Manager has been "fortified" (smile) to
- handle larger volumes of icons than ever before.
- As a result, we have successfully opened the
- more than 4,000 icons contained in the ALLICON
- collection IN ONE WINDOW! The performance of
- this code is only limited by the available
- memory and temporary disk space on your system.
-
- - Multiple icons may now be selected for a copy or
- move operation. Depress the SHIFT key while
- selecting icons with the mouse to create a group
- selection. The Edit menu also contains a new
- entry, "Select All," for quick selection of all
- icons in a window.
-
- - A status bar has been added to Icon Manager that
- displays the filename of the active window, along
- with a count of the total number of icons in the
- window and the number of icons currently
- selected in the window.
-
-
- NEW FEATURES IN THE 3.2 RELEASE OF ICON MANAGER
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- The following additions and changes have been added in
- the 3.2 release of Icon Manager:
-
- - Icons can now be replaced within Windows program
- files. Just drag the new icon you would like to
- use over the one you want to replace and drop it!
-
- - The Arrange option on the Window menu now
- cascades to reveal two selections. Select Align
- Only to perform a normal row and column
- arrangement. Select Alphabetize to perform an
- alphabetical sort during the arrange.
-
-
- NEW FEATURES IN THE 3.1 RELEASE OF ICON MANAGER
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- The following additions and changes have been added in
- the 3.1 release of Icon Manager:
-
- - Icon Archive files now store a description for an
- icon. If you open earlier versions of archive files
- the descriptions will be "(Untitled)". Icon Manager
- will read old format icon archives. Their "changed"
- flag will be automatically set when they are opened.
- When you select to save them they will be written in
- the new format.
-
- (Version 3.1a allows icon descriptions to be used in
- icon library files as well.)
-
- - Icon windows act more like Program Manager's. There
- is a "current selection" for each window. The icon
- description will be highlighted in archive windows.
- All other windows display a dotted frame around the
- current selection. Use the mouse or keyboard arrow
- keys to move the icon selection.
-
- - The right mouse button can be clicked on any icon to
- display a popup menu of actions that can be performed
- on the icon.
-
- - Icons can now be edited via an OLE session with
- Windows Paintbrush by double-clicking on them.
-
- - Icons can be installed *directly* into Program Manager
- using the Install Icon function. A supporting *.ICO
- file is created to be used by Program Manager when (if)
- your video display format changes. The Reconcile
- Configuration function can be used at any time to cause
- Icon Manager to look for ICO files it created which are
- no longer in use by Program Manager.
-
- - Icon Manager takes advantage of the sound capabilities
- of Windows 3.1. Select the File.Sound menu option to
- configure your audio preferences. If you have the
- hardware to play digital *.WAV sounds, you can request
- sound effects associated with the drag and drop as
- well as deletion operations on icons.
-
-
- --------------------------------------------------------
-
- The legalese section...
-
- Icon Manager
- Copyright ⌐ 1990-1994 by Leonard A. Gray.
- All rights reserved.
-
-
- SOFTWARE LICENSE
-
- Non-licensed users are granted a limited license to use Icon
- Manager on a 30-day trial basis for the purpose of determining
- whether Icon Manager is suitable for their needs. The use
- of Icon Manager, except for the initial 30-day trial,
- requires registration. The use of unlicensed copies of Icon
- Manager, outside of the initial 30-day trial, by any person,
- business, corporation, government agency or any other entity is
- strictly prohibited.
-
- A single user license permits a user to use Icon Manager
- 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 computer network by more than
- one user at a time.
-
- No one may modify or patch the Icon Manager executable files
- in any way, including but not limited to decompiling,
- disassembling, or otherwise reverse engineering the program.
-
- A limited license is granted to copy and distribute Icon Manager
- only for the trial use of others, subject to the above
- limitations, and also the following:
-
- 1) Icon Manager and all of its release files must be copied
- in unmodified form, complete with the file containing
- this license information.
-
- 2) No fee, charge, or other compensation may be requested or
- accepted, except as authorized below:
-
- A) Operators of electronic bulletin board systems (sysops)
- may make Icon Manager available for downloading only as
- long as the above conditions are met. An overall or
- time-dependent charge for the use of the bulletin board
- system is permitted as long as there is not a specific
- charge for the download of Icon Manager.
-
- B) Vendors of user-supported or shareware software approved by
- the ASP may distribute Icon Manager, subject to the
- above conditions, without specific permission. Non-
- approved vendors may distribute Icon Manager only after
- obtaining written permission from Impact Software.
- Such permission is usually granted. Please write for
- details (enclose your catalog).
-
- C) Non-profit user groups may distribute copies of the
- Icon Manager diskette to their members, subject to
- the above conditions, without specific permission.
- Non-profit groups may collect a disk duplication fee
- not to exceed five dollars.
-
- LIMITED WARRANTY
-
- Impact Software warrants that all disks provided are
- free from defects in material and workmanship, assuming
- normal use, for a period of 90 days from the date of
- purchase.
-
- Impact Software warrants that the program will perform
- in substantial compliance with the documentation supplied
- with the software product. If a significant defect in
- the product is found, the Purchaser may return the
- product for a refund. In no event will such a refund
- exceed the purchase price of the product.
-
- EXCEPT AS PROVIDED ABOVE, IMPACT SOFTWARE DISCLAIMS ALL
- WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
- LIMITED TO IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
- FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, WITH RESPECT TO THE
- PRODUCT. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, THE
- PURCHASER ASSUMES THE RISK OF PAYING THE ENTIRE COST OF
- ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR, OR CORRECTION AND ANY
- INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL
- IMPACT SOFTWARE BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER
- (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF
- BUSINESS PROFITS, BUSINESS INTERRUPTION, LOSS OF BUSINESS
- INFORMATION AND THE LIKE) ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR THE
- INABILITY TO USE THIS PRODUCT EVEN IF IMPACT SOFTWARE
- HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
-
- Use of this product for any period of time constitutes
- your acceptance of this agreement and subjects you to its
- contents.
-
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-
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