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- IconImage - Version 1.06
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- Requires WB 2.04 (minimum).
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- This utility enables updating of icon images via simple
- drag & drop operations.
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- Ideally this utility should reside in WBStartup, for people who are
- desperately trying to conserve memory this may not be desirable so
- you can launch it from the Workbench as & when you need it.
- This program cannot be run from the Shell or Cli.
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- When IconImage is launched it inserts a menu option in the
- WorkBench Tools menu. If launched from the WBStartUp drawer
- it will wait for the user to activate it via the menu. If
- launched from any other directory the IconImage window will
- pop up immediately.
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- The IconImage window is where you drop icons to be copied.
- Dropping an icon in the window while in Source mode will cause
- the icon to appear on the Workbench as an Application icon.
- Grab the icon you want to update and drop it on the Workbench
- "Source Icon" or change mode to Target and drop the icon onto
- the IconImage window, hey presto it gets updated with the source
- icon image.
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- You can also select multiple icons to be updated in one go,
- hold down the shift key while selecting the icons an then drag
- them onto the Workbench source icon (make sure that the MOUSE
- POINTER is over the Workbench source icon when you drop them).
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- The program also works for items that have no icon and are being
- displayed with a default tool or project icon, IconImage will
- create an icon for these files and then put the source image
- into it.
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- Why display the source icon on the Workbench ? The reason is
- simple, it means that the icon can be fully displayed regardless
- of it's size. It also means that it was easy to hold a source
- icon and go updating many icons in different librarys without
- having to respecify the source icon all the time.
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- If you can't find the IconImage window you can reselect the
- IconImage menu option and the window will pop to the front.
- You can shutdown the program completely and flush it out of
- memory by clicking on the "Quit" gadget. You can hide the
- IconImage Workbench source icon by double clicking on it.
- You can hide the IconImage window by clicking on the standard
- window close gadget, the program will still be available
- from the Workbench Tools Menu.
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- This program does not do any icon type checking, you can copy
- disk images to drawers, drawer images to tools, etc.
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- One problem with Intuition's Icon functions is that they don't
- work on drawer icons that have no drawer, I've included a
- dos script to automatically create the drawers but it will
- only work on WB 3.0 and up (sorry about that).
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- The Icon Supplied uses the MagicWB palette so it will look
- terrible for non MagicWB users.
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- This program is freeware, use and/or distribute as you wish
- on a "NON Profit" basis.
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- Bug reports, Comments, ideas, POSTCARDS, gifts and requests
- for new utilities all welcome.
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- Martin V Lanza
- PO Box 8344,
- Christchurch,
- New Zealand.
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- Phone 64-3-366-1618.
- 3:770/160.10@fidonet.
- mlanza@gladys.lynx.co.nz