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- Short: OptIcon,Icon2c,IconMaker (featuring DOpus5+MWB)
- Type: util/wb
- Uploader: tf@antares.ping.de (Tobias Ferber)
- Author: ferber@rpk.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de (Tobias Ferber)
- Replaces: util/wb/itools_1.42.lha
- Distribution: GPL
-
- This package includes OptIcon, Icon2c and IconMaker.
-
- OptIcon optimizes Workbench icon files for size and speed. I.e. planes
- which are entirely 0 or 1 are modified to use the Image's PlanePick and
- PlaneOnOff fields, trailing 0-planes are removed.
-
- OPTICON ALLOWS YOU TO LIMIT THE # OF BITPLANES IN ICON FILES. YOU MAY
- NEED THIS TO CUT OFF ALL BUT THE FIRST <n> PLANES OF THE IMAGES BECAUSE
- OF THE PROBLEM WITH COMMODORE'S ICON EDITOR WHICH ALWAYS WRITES 8 BITPLANE
- IMAGES !!!
-
- This speeds up Martin Huttenloher's MagicWB icons by a factor of 2-3 !!
- A scriptfile to patch a complete directory tree's icon files is included
- in this archive.
-
- THIS VERSION OF OPTICON NOW ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO EXPAND YOUR 8 OR MORE COLOR
- ICONS FOR THE USE ON A 16 OR MORE COLOR WORKBENCH.
-
- This is important due to the new color system under OS3.x which always
- shifts the second 4 colors to the end of the system palette. Therefore
- you might want to adapt an icon's color depth to the actual screenmode
- it is used on.
-
- Icon2c generates a highly documented and directly compilable C sourcecode
- from an icon image. If compiled w/ -DTEST option an executable will be
- generated which writes back the original icon to disk.
- This allows you to modify an icon in detail for your own needs.
-
- IconMaker creates icons from IFF/ILBM brushes. This allows an overview
- of your brushes on the Workbench! (e.g. for DOpus5 brushes, Workbench
- patterns, etc.)
-