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DefIcons v44
© 1999 by Stephan Rupprecht
All rights reserved.
COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
DefIcons v44 is copyrighted 1999 by Stephan Rupprecht.
All rights reserved. This program is freeware, so no financial
donations required. Redistribution allowed if the package is
left unchanged. The author is not responsible for any damage
caused by the use or misuse of this documentation and/or the
program(s) it describes.
Original idea and program © by Team NewIcons.
Included brainfile was created in 1997 by <R.MacLean@hw.ac.uk>
it was updated and bugfixed by Stephan Rupprecht in 1999 :)
REQUIREMENTS
Any Amiga® (compatible) computer with at least OS3.5,
a deficons.prefs file (included) and some def_xxxx.info files
(both can be found in the NewIcons package).
DESCRIPTION
DefIcons turns any faked icon (displayed when you pick the menu
item Window/Show/All Files) into a more meaningful one. Depending
on its prefs file, the program can identify different filetypes
and supply an appropiate icon for each of them. For a complete
documentation, please take a look at the original DefIcons
documentation which is a part of NewIcons.
INSTALLATION
Copy the DefIcons44 program to your C: drawer and add the
following line to your S:User-Startup
Run >NIL: DefIcons44
NOTE: Unlike the original DefIcons that comes with NewIcons
this program does NOT detach itself ! You can terminate the
program at any time by sending CTRL-C (see cli command break)
to it. Alternatively, you can start the program a second time
to quit it. Oh yes, almost forgot it;) You can start the
program from workbench, too :)
Next copy the brainfile "deficons.prefs" to your envarc:/env:
drawers. That's all. Well almost ;) If you don't have the
default icons from the NewIcons package installed yet, you have
to copy them to your envarc:/env: drawers, too.
KNOWN BUGS
wb3.5 tries to start projects with default tools as wb apps and
not (like wb3.1 and earlier) as shell programs. Because of this
you may get an error message or even a guru if you double-click
a "faked" icon (eg. if you try to unpack a lha archive which
has something like "c:lha x" as default tool). To workaround this
problem, simply add the "CLI" tooltype (Icon information "Start from:
CLI) to your def_xxxx icons. BTW: The "NOPROMPT" (Icon information
"Wait for input" unchecked) tooltype is also very handy in
combination with arexx scripts and cli tools, just try it ... :)
HISTORY
44.0 first public release
44.1 filetype recognition didn't always work because of two
minor bugs. misc internal changes. again updated
deficons.prefs. added a slightly changed version of
ProcessFile.rexx which views html documents by using
OpenURL(.library).
AUTHOR
Please send bug reports and ideas to:
Stephan Rupprecht
Apfeldweg 1
D44359 Dortmund
Germany
Send emails to
stephan.rupprecht@gmx.de