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Fevruary 14, 1994
This is the README.TXT file distributed with Icon
Manager version 3.4.
OVERVIEW
--------
Icon Manager is a powerful tool for working with
icons in the Windows operating environment. The
same drag-and-drop interface used by Program Manager
allows icons to easily be moved, copied, and organ-
ized into files within Icon Manager. Unlike other
applications which offer awkward procedures for
installing icons into Program Manager, Icon Manager
will install icons into Program Manager or Norton
Desktop DIRECTLY using the wizardry of Windows'
Dynamic Data Exchange. For those who would like
to create or edit their own icons, Icon Manager
taps the power of OLE to whisk you into a edit
session with Paintbrush by just double-clicking on
an icon. All of these features and more make
Icon Manager the most complete icon tool available
for the Windows operating environment.
REGISTRATION
------------
Icon Manager is not free software. It is released
as shareware, which provides the opportunity for
the program to be evaluated before it is purchased.
We hope that after you try Icon Manager you will
like it so much that you will want to register.
By doing so you are voting with your pocketbook for
us to continue developing high-quality, Windows
shareware.
Complete information on how to register Almanac
is included in the REGISTER.TXT file.
DOCUMENTATION
-------------
Icon Manager includes on-line help that covers all
aspects of program operation. Some customers have
asked why Icon Manager does not come with an oper-
ations manual. The main reason for this is that
since the first release of Icon Manager in 1990,
Impact Software has never asked registered users
for an upgrade fee. New versions that users
acquire from their shareware channel continue to
honor earlier registrations. By including on-line
help with each release, we are able to provide up-
to-date information for new and old customers
alike.
This is not intended to suggest that upgrades
will always be free, but rather that this method
of providing documentation makes it easier for
us to provide no-charge updates when possible.
INSTALLING ICON MANAGER
-----------------------
The Icon Manager package includes a graphical Windows
installation program using the standard name of SETUP.EXE.
You should place all of the files included in the package
on a floppy disk or in a temporary directory of your hard
drive.
SETUP requires about 210K bytes of hard disk space to
complete the installation of Icon Manager.
Run SETUP by selecting the 'Run...' command from the
File menu of Program Manager or File Manager. Enter
"d:\SETUP" as the Command Line, where "d" is the
drive/directory that you are installing Icon Manager FROM
(i.e. A:\SETUP).
SETUP will prompt for the target directory you would like
to install Icon Manager to on your hard disk. Accept the
default or enter a directory of your choice. Select OK
to install Icon Manager.
NEW FEATURES IN THE 3.4 RELEASE OF ICON MANAGER
-----------------------------------------------
The following additions and changes have been added in
the 3.4 release of Icon Manager:
- The program has been generally updated to
make it a more solid application when
it encounters unknown or bad data, and
to provide feedback to the user to indicate
the source of the problem.
- The Status bar now displays the progress
while sorting (aligning) icons and the
progress of multiple icon moves or copies.
- A Most Recent Used (MRU) file list has
been added to the File menu. The last
four files that are opened or saved will
be available at the end of the File menu
for quick access.
- Sometimes the icon Arrange commands would
cause an error in version 3.3. This has
been corrected.
- The overall presentation of the program
has been updated with the buttonface
texture and 3D dialog look.
NEW FEATURES IN THE 3.3 RELEASE OF ICON MANAGER
-----------------------------------------------
The following additions and changes have been added in
the 3.3 release of Icon Manager:
- A bug in the "Install Icon" routine would
sometimes not quite complete the installation
of an icon into a Program Item for a
non-Windows application. This has been
corrected - icons should install faithfully
100% of the time.
- Icon Manager has been "fortified" (smile) to
handle larger volumes of icons than ever before.
As a result, we have successfully opened the
more than 4,000 icons contained in the ALLICON
collection IN ONE WINDOW! The performance of
this code is only limited by the available
memory and temporary disk space on your system.
- Multiple icons may now be selected for a copy or
move operation. Depress the SHIFT key while
selecting icons with the mouse to create a group
selection. The Edit menu also contains a new
entry, "Select All," for quick selection of all
icons in a window.
- A status bar has been added to Icon Manager that
displays the filename of the active window, along
with a count of the total number of icons in the
window and the number of icons currently
selected in the window.
NEW FEATURES IN THE 3.2 RELEASE OF ICON MANAGER
-----------------------------------------------
The following additions and changes have been added in
the 3.2 release of Icon Manager:
- Icons can now be replaced within Windows program
files. Just drag the new icon you would like to
use over the one you want to replace and drop it!
- The Arrange option on the Window menu now
cascades to reveal two selections. Select Align
Only to perform a normal row and column
arrangement. Select Alphabetize to perform an
alphabetical sort during the arrange.
NEW FEATURES IN THE 3.1 RELEASE OF ICON MANAGER
-----------------------------------------------
The following additions and changes have been added in
the 3.1 release of Icon Manager:
- Icon Archive files now store a description for an
icon. If you open earlier versions of archive files
the descriptions will be "(Untitled)". Icon Manager
will read old format icon archives. Their "changed"
flag will be automatically set when they are opened.
When you select to save them they will be written in
the new format.
(Version 3.1a allows icon descriptions to be used in
icon library files as well.)
- Icon windows act more like Program Manager's. There
is a "current selection" for each window. The icon
description will be highlighted in archive windows.
All other windows display a dotted frame around the
current selection. Use the mouse or keyboard arrow
keys to move the icon selection.
- The right mouse button can be clicked on any icon to
display a popup menu of actions that can be performed
on the icon.
- Icons can now be edited via an OLE session with
Windows Paintbrush by double-clicking on them.
- Icons can be installed *directly* into Program Manager
using the Install Icon function. A supporting *.ICO
file is created to be used by Program Manager when (if)
your video display format changes. The Reconcile
Configuration function can be used at any time to cause
Icon Manager to look for ICO files it created which are
no longer in use by Program Manager.
- Icon Manager takes advantage of the sound capabilities
of Windows 3.1. Select the File.Sound menu option to
configure your audio preferences. If you have the
hardware to play digital *.WAV sounds, you can request
sound effects associated with the drag and drop as
well as deletion operations on icons.
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The legalese section...
Icon Manager
Copyright ⌐ 1990-1994 by Leonard A. Gray.
All rights reserved.
SOFTWARE LICENSE
Non-licensed users are granted a limited license to use Ico