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- Here are some tools for icon tricks... Note that these tools are
- really hacks because they exploit some areas of the .info files
- that the current version of WorkBench does not clear or reset upon
- loading the icon. These appear to be the only fields in the .info
- files that will do anything useful. I am releasing these for public
- use simply because 1.4 is in development and I think it would be neat
- if 1.4 allowed some sort of customization in colours to take place.
- The effect provided by Fix has been mentioned in Amiga Transactor, but
- I discovered it independantly and it was in use on AMUC's newsletter
- disks before the artical appeared.
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- Fix allows you to specify the two colours that go into the borders
- of WorkBench windows. For some neat effects try:
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- 1 2
- 2 1
- 0 0
- 1 1
- 3 0
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- note that WorkBench's default is: 3 0. Note also that playing
- with these settings can change the colours used in WorkBenches
- menus.
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- Lift allows you to raise or lower the text that goes under an icon,
- type "lift" to get help. This is a neat tool as it allows you
- to put the "hanging" text right into the imagery of the icon
- giving WorkBench drawers a whole new look.
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- Center has been improved by adding an optional parameter, "c" for clear,
- which will clear the effects of previous centering or lifting.
- Center is a more restricted version of Lift.
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- For a command line summary of each tool just type the tools name at the
- CLI prompt.
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- Source code is included.
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- Anyway have fun with these...
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- Stephen Vermeulen
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