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- ********************************** HACKICON *********************************
- HackIconIII is Copyright © 1992 by Doug Walker. Feel free to redistribute
- this program or whatever you wish, but any commercial use of it should be
- cleared with the copyright holder.
-
- HackIconIII is an editor designed to allow you to change the icons that HACK
- uses. To use it, simply type 'HackIconIII' or click on its icon from
- workbench. If you wish, you may also specify one or two filenames on the
- CLI command line (although this is, of course, impossible from workbench).
- HACK expects its icons to be in the file 'characters.8'. I suggest you make
- a copy of this file to work from, just in case you don't like the changes
- you make. If the file you specify ends with the characters "16", HackIconIII
- will assume the file is meant for a 16-color screen and it will allow you
- to choose 16 colors to draw your characters. The "16" suffix method is the
- same one used by HackLite to determine how many colors to display.
-
- Once you get into HackIconIII, everything is menu-driven. Hold the right
- mouse button to see the menu titles, then move the cursor over your
- selection and release it to execute it. The following menu selections are
- available when you start up:
-
- LOAD - Selecting LOAD (or hitting the right AMIGA key and 'L'
- simultaneously) will bring up a requestor asking you to type in a
- file name. The default name is 'characters', the HACK icon file.
- Click in the box containing the word 'characters', backspace over
- the word itself and type in the name of the file you want to edit.
- then click 'OK' to load the file or 'CANCEL' to abort loading.
- The name of the current file is displayed in the title bar.
- The maximum number of files you can edit at once is two.
-
- SAVE - Selecting SAVE (or Right-AMIGA-S) saves the current file back to
- where you loaded it from.
-
- SAVEAS - Selecting SAVEAS (or Right-AMIGA-A) brings up a requestor (like the
- LOAD requestor) which allows you to choose a name to save the file
- to.
-
- COLORS - Selecting COLORS (or Right-AMIGA-C) brings up a color selection
- window. Use the mouse to click on one of the color patches on the
- right, and then adjust the Red, Green and Blue sliders on the left
- to get the color you want. When the COLORS window is active, you
- have a modified set of menus available. There are two sets of
- menus, PROJECT and COLORS. The PROJECT menu contains the
- following:
- USE - (Right-AMIGA-U) exits to the editor keeping changes
- RESET - (Right-AMIGA-T) resets to the way they were when you
- started
- CANCEL- (Right-AMIGA-C) exits and cancels changes
-
- The COLORS menu contains the following:
- ORIGINAL COLORS - (Right-AMIGA-O) resets to THIS FONT's original
- palette
- ALTFONT COLORS - (Right-AMIGA-F) resets to the ALTERNATE FONT's
- original palette
-
- ALTFONT - Selecting ALTFONT (or Right-AMIGA-F) switches the current icon font
- being displayed to the second loaded font. Note that you must have
- a second font loaded, either via the LOAD item or on the command
- line.
-
- COPY - Selecting COPY (or Right-Amiga-P) changes your cursor to the word
- FROM. Select an icon to copy from by clicking the left mouse
- button. Then your cursor becomes a TO. Select an icon to copy
- to with the left mouse button. Your menus change to say only
- ALTFONT and QUIT; ALTFONT still switches fonts, so you can copy
- characters from one font to the other, and QUIT aborts the copy.
-
- COPY MULT - Selecting COPY MULT (Right-AMIGA-N) is just like COPY except
- after you have selected a TO character, it starts over at the
- word FROM. When you have finished copying, select QUIT from
- the menu.
-
- QUIT - Quits the editor.
-
- To edit an icon, simply click on its slot (directly over the label for it.)
- Assuming you've loaded a font, an EDIT window will come up. Select a color
- on the right by clicking on it, then draw your icon with the mouse on the
- left. You can draw continuously by holding down the left button. A set
- of EDIT menus is available. The PROJECT menu is as follows:
- USE - (Right-AMIGA-U) Returns to the main screen, keeping changes
- RESET - (Right-AMIGA-T) Resets the character to the way it was when you
- started editing.
- CANCEL- (Right_AMIGA-C) Returns to the main screen, cancelling changes
-
- The EDIT menu has the following:
- FLIP - This item has two subitems, X (Right-Amiga-X) and Y (Right-AMIGA-Y).
- When selected, they flip the image horizontally or vertically.
-
- ROTATE - This item has three subitems, +90 (Right-AMIGA-G),
- -90 (Right-AMIGA-H) and 180 (Right-AMIGA-I). When selected, they
- rotate the character counterclockwise, clockwise or 180 degrees.
-
- SHIFT - This item has four subitems, LEFT (Right-AMIGA-L),
- RIGHT (Right-AMIGA-R), UP (Right-AMIGA-U) and DOWN (Right-AMIGA-D).
- When selected, they shift the whole character in the appropriate
- direction. The pixels on the edge you are shifting towards are
- LOST!!!
-
- Constructive criticism, comments, suggestions, folding money, hamsters:
-
- Doug Walker
- 405 B3 Gooseneck Drive /* I didn't name it, I just live on it! */
- Cary, NC 27513
- (919) 467-4764
-
- Destructive criticism, flames, graduation announcements, gerbils:
-
- Roscoe L. Egger, Jr.
- Commissioner of Internal Revenue
- Internal Revenue Service
- P. O. Box 6940
- Florence, KY 41042
- Air mail five seperate copies, each taped to a brick.
-