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- CIcon Edit
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- Copyright ©1987 Ben Haller, AppleSauce Designs. You can copy this
- and give it away, but you may not sell it or distribute modified
- copies. The usual PD arrangement.
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- CIcon Edit is a Mac II only program to create color icon resources
- (cicns). It will deal only with icons with 4-bit depth (up to 16
- colors). Other cicns will be treated incorrectly, so beware.
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- cicns are color icons. One is the color mac logo that appears at
- startup (Welcome To Macintosh). You can also make the icons that
- appear in dialog boxes cicns, or you can use them in your own
- programs if you want. You cannot replace a file’s Finder icon with a
- cicn (come on, Apple, get it together!)
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- Each cicn has three parts — a mask, which tells what area the icon
- covers, a BWIcon, which is the icon displayed in a black&white
- mode, and the Color Icon itself. These parts each have a separate
- grid in CIcon Edit, and each grid is labelled appropriately. The
- mask and BWIcon draw in black and white only, as in FatBits. The
- Color Icon is in full color. You select the current drawing color in
- the palette at the bottom of the window. The currently selected
- color has a highlight around it.
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- Use the Color menu to modify the current palette. Before you save
- a cicn, Remove all the colors in the palette you don’t use in the cicn.
- This will save a few bytes. Add HSVRange adds any number of
- colors between the selected color and the one to the right of it. For
- example, if the selected color was red and the color to the right of
- red was blue, Add HSVRange would add the intermediate shades of
- purple. Add RGBRange does the same thing, but should be used
- instead of HSVRange if one of the two colors is a shade of gray.
- Experiment with these and you might just figure out the conceptual
- difference. Also, double-click on a color in the palette to change it
- without having to choose the menu item.
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- The Transform menu lets you flip, rotate, scroll, etc. Select which
- grids to transform with the first three items. Then do what you
- want to do.
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- The Edit menu lets you copy, paste, frame and fill rectangles. Select
- a rectangle by holding down Option and dragging. Then do what
- you want to do in the menu. To paste, Option-Click in the upper
- left of where you want to paste into. The things you copy cannot
- be pasted into other applications. Also with the Edit menu, you can
- copy the BWIcon into the other maps. The BWIcon->Mask is
- especially useful: given any BWIcon, the mask it gives you will
- probably be what it should be, filled in and everything. Finally,
- Mirror Drawing lets you draw in the Color Icon and it will also draw
- in the BWIcon, simultaneously.
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- With the File menu, you can open old-style ICONs and ICN#s, and
- they will be converted to cicns (albeit black-and-white cicns). You
- can also save your icons. You should probably save into a separate
- file and put the cicn in where you want it with ResEdit, but you can
- put it directly into a file.
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- Finally, in the Apple Menu is About, which has a cicn in it (wow...)
- No DAs. Sorry, but I’m lazy.
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- The Usual Process for making a cicn is as follows: Draw your Color
- Icon, turning Mirror Drawing on and off as you go, depending on
- whether you want each part you draw to be black or white in the
- BWIcon. When you’re done, do BWIcon->Mask, then remove all the
- unused colors in the palette, then save it.
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- For a good start with experimenting, open the System File, cicn ID#
- 31.
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- As I see it, CIcon Edit is just about done. Maybe I’ll make it work
- with multiple pixel depths. If you want this a lot, write and say so.
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- Also, look for the other AppleSauce Designs programs, like Flex,
- Mandelbrot, PTable, and so on.
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- If you have any questions, comments, suggestions, etc, write to me
- at:
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- AppleSauce Designs
-
- c/o Ben Haller
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- 32 Deer Haven Drive
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- Ithaca, N.Y. 14850.
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- Enjoy.
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-
- (Sorry if the format of these docs gets a little repetitive, but it’s
- faster to mass-produce. If you don’t know what I mean, just wait
- until you read a few more by me.)
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