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- From: vedovatt@u.washington.edu (Philip Vedovatti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Default disk-icons ?
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 03:24:17 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
- Message-ID: <4ge391$ma4@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
- References: <4fuu58$ctm@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <MSGID_2=3A242=2F7.3_06887171@fidonet.org>
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- In article <MSGID_2=3A242=2F7.3_06887171@fidonet.org>,
- Joachim Worringen <Joachim_Worringen@mowgli.fido.de> wrote:
- >In Article <4b223213@<4fuu58$ctm@nntp5.u.washington.edu>>, wrote Philip
- >Vedovatti <vedovatt@u.washington.edu>:
- >
- >>
- >> In article <282.6618T11T2631@vip.cybercity.dk>, Brian Ipsen
- >> <bipsen@vip.cybercity.dk> wrote:
- >> >Yo!
- >> >
- >> > When looking in a TomIcons package, I discovered some default-icons
- >> >for different types of disks... Can a program be found, which supports
- >> >these icons, and uses them fro busy disks, ms-dos floppies etc ???
- >> >
- >>
- >> Check Aminet: pub/aminet/util/wb/NewIconsV2.lha
- >>
- >> Install the DefIcons portion of the package with the installer. Then
- >> edit the icons in Envarc:sys to your liking.
- >
- >I really am a fan of NewIcons and happily have converted every MagicWB-
- >Icon into a real Icon. There`s only one thing that could/should be changed
- >in `DefIcons`: I`d like to specicfy a path where DefIcons should look for
- >the def_xxx.info files. I do not want to spend so much RAM in ENV: for all
- >those icon files !
-
- You can put them on your hard drive by creating a directory like Env2.
- Create a directory in Env2 called "sys", and copy all the default icons
- into the "Env2/sys" directory. In your user-startup, add a line like:
-
- Assign Env: Work:Env2/sys add <-- change the location to where you
- put Env2/sys on your hard drive.
-
- That should save you some RAM. Alternatively, you could run
- "killoldicon" on those icons, which will get rid of the unneeded
- non-NewIcon images in those icons. You can also get rid of some of the
- icons that you don't need defaults for.
-
- >Another thing: what`s so new about the Version 2 of the NewIcons package ?
- >I could hardly find any difference !
-
- Well, for one thing, it's faster. And:
-
- From the documentation:
-
-
- Version History:
-
- V2.0
-
- In the previous version of the docs I forgot to mention that the chunky to
- planar routine was based on a routine by Chris Green (who based his
- routine on one by Richard Addison).
-
- fixed bug in DefIcons, was causing "plase insert volume dir c" after doing
- execute command - dir c:
-
- fixed bug in DefIcons, would hang if it couldn't find deficons.prefs
-
- fixed bug in DefIcons, was causing a disk icon to appear for files called
- "disk".
-
- fixed bug in DefIcons, would show a drawer as disk icon for disks
- containing a directory called "disk" (which is a bad idea anyway).
-
- The GetDiskObjectNew() patch now returns NULL if the given name doesn't exist
- (like the standard function)
-
- now does dithering (optional)
-
- some file types added to deficons.prefs.
-
- bug fix: createdefaulticon now preserves the tooltypes of tool icons and of
- project icons whose default icon have no default tool.
-
- bug fix: newicons would check the argarray after FreeArgs(). Thanks to
- Nicola Soggia for discovering it and not reporting it. Thanks to Moreno
- Magnani who did report it.
-
- bugfix, arj files were not recognized
-
- bug fix: DefIcons now uses Stricmp() to avoid problems with international
- sorting
-
- DEFAULTIMAGE special ToolType added
-
- Fixed installer: no longer copies over the original def_#? icons in
- Envarc:sys. It now just copies them to a safe place.
-
- Localized installer and documentation files added
-
- Replaced "ReplaceImage" utility with "KillOldIcon", since ReplaceImage
- required NewIcons not to be running to use.
-
- Changed a few of the icons from the original distribution archive
-
-
-
-
- Phil
-
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