The only thing you have to do is put the VROBJ.DLL file included in this archive in any directory listed in the LIBPATH statement in your CONFIG.SYS, e.g. x:\OS2\DLL (x being your drive letter). Now you're ready to run the program.
HOW TO USE SETICON:
1) Selecting Files and/or Directories:
Using SetIcon is very very easy. The first thing that you do is enter a file mask in the "File Mask" box. Any standard mask will do including the * and ? wildcards.
Examples:
f:\myfiles\*.zip
c:\*.*
d:\file?.doc
As you're entering the file mask, the contents of the "File Box" are being updated all the time. Now to finish choosing the files, you must actually choose the files you need from the list in the file box. You can use the "All" button to select all the files in the list then click on the files you don't want to be included in the operation to remove them. OR you can only choose the files you want from the list. Only the highlighted files will be included in the operation.
The last thing that I should mention in this topic is the two switches under the file box. These switches are self explanatory, but I will show their use by this example:
Suppose you want to change the icon of all/some of the DIRECTORIES in a drive. You must set the directories switch and un-set the files switch. The file box will now include only directories.
2) Choosing an Icon:
The second thing that you should do is choose the icon that you want to associate with the list of files. To do this, click on the "Choose Icon" button, a file requester will be displayed. Use this requester to choose an OS/2 icon file (you can't use Windows icon files because they're incompatible with OS/2). After you choose the icon, its name will be displayed in the "Icon Name" box.
3) Viewing an Icon:
After choosing an icon, you have the option of viewing the icon to make sure it is the one you wanted or not. Clicking the "View Icon" button will launch the Icon Editor on a separate thread and display the icon you have chosen. The advantage of using a multithreaded approach and not freezing the program until you return from the Icon Editor is that while the Icon Editor is still running, you can choose another icon and view. This way you can compare icons and see the one that you really this suitable to your taste. The downside of this approach is that YOU must terminate the Icon Editors you have launched. Even if you exit from SetIcon, the Icon Editors won't terminate.
4) Set the Icons:
This is the final step, just click on the long button in the buttom of the screen labeled "Change the icons of the files to the new one".
WARNING: Make sure that you really want to change the icons of the files you have chosen, because their old icons will be over-written and lost.
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