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- From: jpeacock@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Jason Peacock)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Magic WB v NewIcons
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 05:01:18 GMT
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
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- Barry Shilliday (barry_s@nibelung.demon.co.uk) wrote:
- : Ok, a simple question:
-
- Not so simple answer.
-
- : What is the best, NewIcons or MagicWB? Ignoring the fact one is shareware and
- : the other free.
- : (I'm having trouble deciding which to install :)
-
- I'll bite.
-
- Install both. MagicWB, in my opinion, is a simply a style of how the
- Workbench can look. The registered version includes a hack to lock
- some pens so that the colors being used for the MagicWB style don't
- get messed up.
-
- NewIcons is more of a system that gives you a more intelligent way of
- handling icons. NewIcons hacks the system to read encoded IFF brushes
- (or something similar) in the tooltypes of icons and use those images
- as the icon. Then it provides a pen allocation system whereby the
- system will examine the color in the icon and give it a pen that best
- matches that color....the result is that your icons will look
- reasonably correct regardless of what colors your Workbench is using.
-
- NewIcons also includes a set of icons that the author feels are pretty
- nifty. I don't use them because they don't look as good as MagicWB
- style icons do on my 8-color Workbench.
-
- BTW, the MagicWB 2.0 archive on Aminet can't really be installed because
- it's really just a couple of screen grabs of what a MagicWB style Workbench
- would look like. If you really want that look, I recommend getting
- one of the other MagicWB style icon archives which are plentiful on
- Aminet.
-
- : Barry Shilliday -- <barry@nibelung.demon.co.uk>
- : A1200/030/50/8+2/170 - KS 3.1
- : Public PGP Key available on request.
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