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- A quick note about ShoveColors (updated March 27, 1995)
-
- This was a quick and dirty program I threw together. It will read in an
- IFF file containing a CMAP chunk, and then set the default public
- screen's RGB values.
-
- FILE Specifies the IFF to get the palette from, duh.
-
- QUIET Surpresses all output, so no window is opened.
-
- FORCE Overrides other program's locks. Be careful on the Workbench
- screen!
-
- LOCKALL Locks all pens, regardless of the LOCK hunk. Useful for
- non-Iconian palette files!
-
- Also, if present is a "LOCK" hunk (a custom hunk saved from
- Iconian (versions 1.90-1.98b), then any pens that were saved
- as locked will attempted to be locked.
-
- NOTIFY This places 'shovecolors' in a loop, waiting for Workbench to
- close and re-open it's screen. Since shovecolors does not
- split from the current CLI process, you MUST use "run >NIL:
- <NIL: shovecolors" in order to place in scripts. You can
- stop shovecolors by sending it a BREAK signal (CTRL-C). This
- is easily done if you forgot and left it run in a CLI window.
- If you used "RUN <NIL: >NIL: shovecolors", you must use a
- utility like XOper or Scout. Someday, shovecolors might
- become a commodity, so all this will be moot...
-
- SIGNALWBVERLAUF Seems WBVerlauf doesn't always notice a screen mode
- change, and therefore doesn't rebuild it's
- copperlist. I attempt to signal WBVerlauf when a
- change is made, but only if the NOTIFY switch is
- present. This is a hack?? so only specify this
- switch if you are brave.
-
-
-
- What's the POINT?
-
- Well, you could edit a custom palette for a 3.0 workbench screen. Just
- specify pens 0-3 as normal 2.0 colors, 4-7 as MagicWB colors and LOCKED.
- Then save the palette. Then, call ShoveColors everytime the Workbench
- screen is changed or opened (or from shell-startup!). This way, you can
- save all your icons with 3 planes (strip planes in Iconian), to save
- disk space!!! No need to save all 8 planes to get correct looking
- icons!!! (btw, this is how MagicWB 2.0 saves it's icons now...)
-
- No guarantees are made for this program. Use at your own risk. Check
- the source, maybe you could fix any bugs you find?
-
- Have fun.
-
- C.Randall
-