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- DefDrawer 1.1 User Manual
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- Jul 9, 1992
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- PREFACE
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- The programs and files in this distribution are freely
- distributable, but are also Copyright (c) Nico François. They may be
- freely distributed as long as no more than a nominal fee is charged
- to cover time and copying costs.
- No commercial usage is permitted without written permission from
- the author. Everything in this distribution must be kept together, in
- original unmodified form.
- The above is generally known as freeware.
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- Contacting the author:
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- Fido: 2:292/603.10 (Nico Francois)
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- UUCP: Nico.Francois@p10.f603.n292.z2.FidoNet.Org
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- Mail: Nico François
- Corbielaan 13
- B-3060 Bertem
- BELGIUM
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- If you can please use e-mail. That way you'll stand a much better
- chance of getting a reply quickly.
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- NOTE: DefDrawer 1.1 requires Kickstart/Workbench 2.0 (or higher)
- to run!
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- 1. Introduction
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- Many Amiga users have hard disks nowadays. If you are one of these
- lucky people I believe you will appreciate DefDrawer. Even if you
- don't own a hard disk DefDrawer may be useful for you. But read on
- and decide for yourself.
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- Have you ever been annoyed with the multitude of drawer icons on
- your hard disk. Not two of them looking alike. I most certainly have.
- Most programs come with their own drawer icons, and when you install
- them on your hard disk you will have gained an even more versatile
- drawer-look :-)
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- Now wouldn't it be nice to quickly and easily change these drawer
- icons to look like your favorite drawer icon without losing important
- data like icon position and the drawer's window bounds.
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- This is exactly what DefDrawer does. It helps you to easily change
- a drawer icon's image to reflect your default drawer icon's image,
- without touching anything else in the icon (like the position and
- window bounds). The default drawer icon is used (created by saving a
- drawer icon as default with IconEdit), the same drawer icon as the
- one used when you create a new drawer.
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- 2. Usage
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- 2.1 From CLI/Shell
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- Enter 'DefDrawer ?' for a CLI usage template, 'DefDrawer ??' for a
- more detailed usage report:
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- DefDrawer [<dir[.info]>...] [DRAWERICON <icon[.info]>]
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- So simply pass one or more drawer names who's icons should be
- changed or created to look like the default drawer icon image. There
- is no need to include a '.info'.
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- Example: 'DefDrawer SYS:System Work:Tools.info'
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- The DRAWERICON keyword allows you to select a drawer icon who's
- image will be used instead of the default drawer icon.
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- Example: 'DefDrawer Work:C DRAWERICON ENV:sys/my_drawer.info'
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- 2.1 From Workbench
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- This is definately the easiest way to use DefDrawer.
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- To use DefDrawer single click the DefDrawer icon and then
- extend-select one or more other icons (use shift click,
- double-clicking the last one). DefDrawer will then proceed and
- change the image of each of the drawer icons you selected. Icons that
- are not drawer icons will be ignored. If you put DefDrawer in your
- Workbench's menu (using ToolsDaemon or ToolsManager) and make sure it
- gets arguments passed, you can easily extend-select some drawer icons
- and select the menu item you added.
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- Thanks to the AppIcon feature of Workbench 2.0 there is an even
- easier way to use DefDrawer: When you double-click DefDrawer you will
- be presented with an additional icon in the Workbench window. If you
- now drop some other icons on this icon these will be processed.
- Couldn't be easier now, could it :-) Double-clicking the icon brings
- up a requester asking you if you wish to quit DefDrawer.
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- DefDrawer recognizes following tooltypes:
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- DRAWERICON: Enter this tooltype in DefDrawer's icon to select a
- drawer icon who's image will be used to replace the
- original image.
- ICONXPOS : Set the AppIcon's vertical screen position.
- ICONYPOS : Set the AppIcon's horizontal screen position.
- ICONNAME : Set the AppIcon's name (max 64 chars).
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- Select DefDrawer's icon and choose 'Information' from the 'Icons'
- menu. You can now edit DefDrawer's tooltypes, check your Workbench
- manual for more information.
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- If the first icon passed to DefDrawer is a project icon DefDrawer
- will examine its tooltypes as well. This way you can easily create
- several icons to bring up AppIcons that create different types of
- drawers. It is a good idea to use the ICONNAME tooltype in the
- project icon in this case.
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- As always, I hope you find this program useful!
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- PROGRAM HISTORY
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- **********************************************************************
- VERSION 1.0
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- o First release.
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- **********************************************************************
- VERSION 1.1
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- o DefDrawer for Kickstart 1.3 dropped, sorry 1.3 users, upgrade! :)
- o Three new tooltypes to set icon position and name: ICONXPOS,
- ICONYPOS and ICONNAME.
- o Tooltypes are now also looked for in the first selected icon passed
- to DefDrawer (if this is a project icon). This allows you to set up
- different icons for several different drawers.
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- **********************************************************************
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- DefDrawer 1.1 written by Nico François (Yes, Nico is my first name :-)
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- "Yeah you touch me just like murder" - The Black Crowes
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- Copyright (c) 1991/1992 Nico François
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- Thanks to \X/ Amiga for being the best computer ever!
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- Table Of Contents
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- DefDrawer 1.1
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- PREFACE......................................................... 1
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- 1. Introduction................................................. 1
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- 2. Usage........................................................ 2
- 2.1 From CLI/Shell........................................... 2
- 2.1 From Workbench........................................... 2
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- PROGRAM HISTORY................................................. 3
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