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  1. /***************************************************************************/
  2. /*                 THIS IS A SHAREWARE PROGRAM   (read below)              */
  3. /***************************************************************************/
  4. /*                      ----- PRELUDE -----                      870618    */
  5. /* 'IconAssembler' was written sometime in early spring '87 and 'finished' */
  6. /* (made ready for shipping to Fred Fish) in June. IconAssembler is        */
  7. /* probably the worst name you've ever heard in your life, but with the    */
  8. /* sometimes restricted 'word-supply' ( <<- see what I mean?) of a young   */
  9. /* Swede it's a pretty good description of what the program does.          */
  10. /* It actually 'assembles' IFF-brush image(s) to an existing Workbench Icon*/
  11. /* (come to think of it -it maybe ought to be called 'IconImageAssembler'?)*/
  12. /* Yes, big ones too. I myself find it as an extremly helpful tool - OK not*/
  13. /* extremly, but it's fun. AND it's much easier to define an IconImage in  */
  14. /* a paintprog than in IconEd.                                             */
  15. /* The program lets you load an Icon (an .info-file) and retrieve new      */
  16. /* image(s) and then save the Icon again.                                  */
  17. /* THE PROGRAM DOESN'T AFFECT THE TOOLTYPE.                                */
  18. /* That is, a Disk-Icon can only be saved as a Disk-Icon later, & NOT as a */
  19. /* Drawer-Icon nor anything else. The workbench only uses 2 bitplanes so   */
  20. /* any extra bitplanes will be stripped off. Furthermore does AmigaDOS not */
  21. /* save the images in an encoded format thus making big images take up a   */
  22. /* lot of diskspace.                                                       */
  23. /* The prog doesn't let you take one iconimage and put it in another (Icon)*/
  24. /* or let you merge iconimages from different icons. (IconEd can do that.) */
  25. /*                                                                         */
  26. /* I've heard that there are some similar programs out there, but I haven't*/
  27. /* seen any of 'em myself - maybe they're better maybe not. Or maybe they  */
  28. /* are EXPENSIVE! Yap, this is SHAREWARE - read copyright notice below and */
  29. /* send me $5 - 10 or equevalent in your land's currency (as long as it    */
  30. /* isn't something unexchangeable (nice word) like 1-kilo copperplates from*/
  31. /* central Africa). It's cheap and would keep a poor guy like me going for */
  32. /* a while longer.                                                         */
  33. /* Well, anyway this is Stefan signing off.                                */
  34. /*                                            BYE, BYE!                    */
  35. /* By the way... the word above should be 'vocabulary'. (I looked it up)   */
  36. /***************************************************************************/
  37.  
  38. /***************************************************************************/
  39. /*                   +++++ COPYRIGHT NOTICE +++++                          */
  40. /***************************************************************************/
  41. /* Copyright 1987 By Stefan Lindahl (HASTEF Software). All rights reserved.*/
  42. /*                                                                         */
  43. /* This program is NOT in the public domain.                               */
  44. /*                                                                         */
  45. /* This program may NOT be distributed by any commercial software or       */
  46. /* hardware vendor nor under any guise.                                    */
  47. /* This program may ONLY be distributed by networks, bbs's,                */
  48. /* (NON-PROFIT) user groups and of course by Fred Fish.                    */
  49. /*                                                                         */
  50. /* The Author cannot be liable for the use or misuse of this program.      */
  51. /*                                                                         */
  52. /* This Copyright notice must be distributed with the program.             */
  53. /*                                                                         */
  54. /* If you find this program useful please                                  */
  55. /* send $5 - $10 (or equivalent in other currency) to:                     */
  56. /*                                                                         */
  57. /*                      Stefan Lindahl (HASTEF Software)                   */
  58. /*                      Drevkarlsgr. 8                                     */
  59. /*                      S-222 52 LUND                                      */
  60. /*                      SWEDEN                                             */
  61. /*                                                                         */
  62. /* To this address you also send Notes & LetterBombs. No Bug Reports - I   */
  63. /* couldn't possibly handle so many letters.....                           */
  64. /*                                                                         */
  65. /***************************************************************************/
  66.  
  67. /***************************************************************************
  68. *   BUGS:   It has happened that the first byte on the brush/icon image    *
  69. *           vanishes. (Should it happen- just leave a blank row at the top)*
  70. *           Perhaps a cleanup problem (Lack of planning, as always)        *
  71. *           Others, just crawling all over the place                       *
  72. ****************************************************************************/
  73.  
  74. ****************************************************************************/
  75. /* I included a simple little program which extracts the colordata from an */
  76. /* IFF-file. You can then use the colors in the Workbench, for example.    */
  77. /* Start from CLI only I'm afraid.                                         */
  78. ****************************************************************************/
  79.  
  80.