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- From: sysop@sweetdreams.lahn.de (Matthias Bethke)
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- Subject: Re: What I want from new Workbench
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 22:28:58 +0000
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- On Thu 21-Mar-1996 12:00 Innovision Concepts Limite wrote:
-
- IL> I did RTFingM.
- IL> I installed the Fing program.
- IL> I tried it.
- IL> There was NO difference between using NI and NOT using NI from what I
- IL> could see.
- IL> Hence the perfectly reasonable Fing question.
-
- I tried to disassemble the NewIcons program, it's pretty obscure. I haven't
- had the nerves to step all through the code, but what it basically does is
- redirect some icon.library functions to newicon.library (to enable the
- tooltype shadowing, palette remapping and other stuff newicons.library adds)
- and patch OpenScreenTagList(). I've no idea why the latter one is patched.
-
- IL> It seems that, for my purposes, NI's function is not overly useful -
- IL> I do not really wish to fiddle with the palette, and NI seems not to
- IL> make any difference when over non-NI when using backdrops, so I shall
- IL> not use it.
-
- No, it doesn't affect backdrops at all AFAIK.
- I'd *love* to use NI though, if the darn thing didn't use these stupid
- tooltypes and crunched gfx. What I'd prefer would be a completely incompatible
- icon system with
- - uncrunched gfx or at least an option to disable crunching (my HD is fast
- enough and I don't care about a few KB, fast icon loading is more important to
- me)
- - palettes with remapping or dithering, that one is pretty cool in NI
- - an own fileformat to do that in as little memory as possible (*no*
- ToolTypes).
- I'd have coded such a thing myself but I don't have enough info on what fields
- in the DiskObject structure are needed for what type of icon...
-
- ttyl!
- Matthias
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