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Version 1.2 4-14-87
The INFO pick button now will recognize a second click (in a row) and will
select all files that have icons. A third click reverts back to single click.
The wildcard text box now will accept !pattern (e.g. !*.c) and will un-select
any file or directory that matches; if ~pattern is entered, then the action
for any matched files is to toggle its selection.
Version 1.2 4-2-87
The semi-automatic select now will check the contents of the file if there is
no file extension (the . convention of v1.1 is gone) or the file extension is
not found in the icons: drawer. Two types of files are recognized.
1. IFF files of type FORM where the icon chosen is the first form type
(actually just the 4 character name in bytes 8,9,10, and 11 (ILBM, SMUS etc.).
2. If the first word is the value for a hunk header (an executable file) then
the icon used will be EXE.info in the icons: directory.
Version 1.1
This version contains a semi-automatic way of selecting icons for files.
It reverts back to the good ol' days of file extensions to describe file
type. So, any file extension like .c, .o, .doc, .pic, etc. will be used
to determine the icon from the icons: drawer where one can have a nice
library. Two special cases, misc is used if the extension does not have
a counterpart in the icons: drawer, and the file . (yes, just dot) is used
if a file has no extension, kind of a catch all.
Version 1.0
Iconmaker is most useful when it is readily available on the system
disk.
The best way to install the iconmaker into your system is to place the
executable iconmaker onto you system disk in the C: directory and the
rest of the files
project, project.info
tool, tool.info
drawer, drawer.info
in this kit into a directory also on the system disk, for example
sys:icon_templates. Then add the following line to your system startup
file
sys:s/startup-sequence:
assign icons: sys:icon_templates
Note that the file drawer is not supplied since it is a directory file
that must be created as for example,
makedir sys:icon_templates/drawer
The files TOOL and PROJECT have been provided in the kit although they
are only dummy files that are necessary so you can use the workbench
option INFO on the icon files (likewise, the sub-directory drawer is not
used by iconmaker but permits one to manipulate the icon files from the
workbench).
Iconmaker can be invoked from workbench as well as cli, so you may want
to create a project icon file in the root level of the system disk that
has as its default tool c:iconmaker. When you want to run iconmaker on
the files in a directory that has an icon, do an extended selection of
iconmaker and the icon for the drawer (in that order). This is
equivalent to typing
iconmaker device:drawer
to the cli.
Note that there is nothing magic about the name iconmaker, you may
shorten it to anything you want.