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- IconExtras (C) 1995
- by Jeff Axelrod
-
- Purpose:
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- IconExtras provides you with some icon processing utilities that the
- Workbench designers left out. With these tools, you can change the color
- of your system drawers, make file links, copy and delete icons. With each
- script, the icon is updated immediately in its window using the included
- "copyicon" and "deleteicon" commands, which notify the workbench that
- you've changed or added an icon.
-
- Required:
- ---------
- If you want to use the included scripts, you'll need ToolsDaemon or some
- other similar product which allows you to add items to the Workbench menus.
- This can be found on Aminet. And you'll need ARexx installed. If you want
- to just use copyicon and deleteicon in your own shell scripts, you don't
- need ARexx or ToolsDaemon.
-
- Installation:
- -------------
- Copy the contents of the bin directory to c: or somewhere else in your
- path where you keep your favorite shell utilities. Copy the contents of
- the Rexx directory into your Rexx: directory. Copy the contents of the
- envarc directory to your envarc:sys directory. Then, if you use
- ToolsDaemon, for each IconExtra command you want to install, add the
- command "rx COMMANDNAME []" in CLI mode.
-
- Usage:
- ------
- For each icon manipulating script, just select the icon, then go up to the
- ToolsDaemon menu and select the script you'd like to execute. The
- makedrawer scripts make different colored drawers like the Macintosh does.
- The makelink script makes a link just like the Macintosh make alias command
- does. And delete icon deletes an icon without deleting the file itself.
- Feel free to change the sample drawer images I've supplied or make your own
- with IconEdit in your Tools directory. The colors I named were based on an
- 8-color Workbench with a MUI palette. The named colors may not necessarily
- match your particular system's colors.
-
- Source:
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- Source is included and was compiled with SASC V6.5. Feel free to change it
- to suit your taste or include it in other programs.
-
- Copying:
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- (C) 1995 Jeff Axelrod
- You can do whatever the hell you want with this set of programs/scripts!
- Thanks Nico François for ToolsPrefs!
-
- Problems:
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- I'd like to hear from you if you have any problems or comments, you can
- reach me at: (start from the top and work your way down if unsuccessful!)
-
- jma28719@telnet.egr.uh.edu
- eleeb4p@menudo.uh.edu
- axelrod@elgreco.eecs.uic.edu
- axelrod@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu
- (713) 748-5244 My apartment
- (708) 537-3052 My permanent home
-