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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Extended Help IconEase ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Thank you for using IconEase.
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- This help file is organized into the following sections:
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- o The trouble with icons
- o How IconEase helps
- o How to change object icons
- o Use of the Notebook page
- o Use of the Combo Box
- o Use of the Send to Clipboard button
- o Launching the OS/2 Icon Editor
- o Startup parameters
- o Registering IconEase
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. The Trouble With Icons ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- If you have my artistic abilities, creating freehand icons with the OS/2 Icon
- Editor is beyond your capability. Therefore, you will need to collect a
- library of icons that help you make your desktop both easier to use and more
- attractive.
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- OS/2 icons are becoming plentiful. In fact, the icons that are distributed
- with IconEase are public domain icons that were downloaded from Compuserve.
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- Maintaining icon libraries can be a clumsy and disk consuming effort, though.
- Each icon is minimally 888 bytes large. However, many hard drives allocate
- space in 1024 and 4096 increments. Therefore, the space that the icons occupy
- on your disk can be much larger than their apparent size.
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- Keeping track of the icons and associating their image with their names tends
- to be problematic, as well.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. How IconEase Can Help ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- IconEase addresses the most troublesome elements of OS/2 icon maintenance.
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- A very advanced compression algorithm is used to store multiple icons in a
- single file. That way the amount of disk space required to maintain large
- libraries of icons is reduced. The electronically distributed version of
- IconEase houses 55 icons in very little space. You can order a library of over
- 3300 public domain icons obtained from Compuserve and formatted for IconEase.
- These icons are compressed into less than one megabyte of disk space. You can
- also send your favorite icons in with your registration to be formatted for use
- by IconEase. Please, see the registration form section of this help file.
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- IconEase makes use of the OS/2 notebook control so that you can access and
- manage the icons in the compressed file in a very natural way. Icons can be
- quickly previewed on the notebook page. You don't have to waste a lot of time
- fishing around for an icon that you want to use. By using the controls on the
- notebook page , you can easily copy an icon to the OS/2 clipboard where it can
- be used to change a Workplace Shell object's icon. Also, you can launch an
- icon editor from the notebook page icon preview and make changes to existing
- icons before you pass them to the WPS object settings icon editor.
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- Hopefully, IconEase lives up to its name by making icon management easier in
- OS/2.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Changing the Icon for an Object ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Use the following procedure to change the icon for an OS/2 Workplace Shell
- object:
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- o Open the settings for the object
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- - Right mouse button click the object icon
- - Left mouse button click the arrow that appears to the right of the Open
- menu item
- - Left mouse button click the Setting menu subitem
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- o Surface the General settings notebook page by left mouse button clicking the
- General tab
- o Left mouse click the Edit button in the icon section of the General settings
- notebook page
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- o Left button double click your IconEase object
- o Preview the icon you want to use for the desktop object
- o Left mouse click the Send to Clipboard button
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- o Left mouse click the settings Icon Editor title bar
- o Press and hold the Shift key and press the Insert key
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Use of the Notebook Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- To obtain general help, press F2 now.
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- Icons are alphabetically organized on each notebook page. You can place the
- input focus on the notebook page by left button mouse clicking the upper right
- hand corner of the opened page. When the notebook page has the input focus,
- you can use the up and down arrow keys on your keyboard to move through the
- tabs of the notebook.
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- Once you have highlighted the tab you wish to open, press the enter key. That
- tab will surface and icons that begin with that tab character will be displayed
- in the list portion of the icon combo box control.
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- You can also click a notebook tab to bring it to the surface.
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- The notebook page serves four main functions:
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- o Icon selection
- o Icon preview
- o Save icon to clipboard
- o Launch the icon editor
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.1. The Send to Clipboard Button ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- After you have previewed an icon, you can send it to the clipboard by pressing
- the Send to Clipboard button.
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- IconEase will send a bitmap of the icon to the clipboard. This bitmap can be
- used by any word processor or paint program that is able to paste OS/2 bitmaps.
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- IconEase also sends two private clipboard formats that are understood by the
- OS/2 Icon Editor program. That way, you can easily change OS/2 Workplace
- Shell object icons.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.2. Launching the Icon Editor ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- You can launch the Icon Editor for the purpose of editing the the preview icon.
- Of course, it is necessary to place an icon in the preview area first.
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- Launch the OS/2 Icon Editor by pointing at the preview icon on the notebook
- page and clicking the right mouse button.
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- You can launch several concurrent Icon Editor sessions using IconEase. Each
- instance of the Icon Editor runs as a separate session. That means you can
- even close IconEase without disturbing the edit sessions.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. Use of the Combo Box ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- To obtain general help, press F2 now.
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- The combination box is comprised of an entry field and a list box. The list
- box contains the names of all of the icons that begin with the tab letter of
- the currently opened notebook page.
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- You can use the entry box to perform the following functions:
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- o Fast path open a new notebook page
- o Position the current selection in the list box
- o Preview an icon on the notebook page
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.1. Notebook Page Fast Path ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Whenever the data in the entry field is completely selected (all characters are
- highlighted,) you can type the notebook tab character for the page that you
- wish to surface.
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- You can quickly select the entry field characters by pressing the down arrow
- key. That loads a new listbox item into the entry field and fully selects it.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.2. Positioning on a Listbox Item ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Just type in the leftmost characters of an icon name. IconEase will
- automatically position and select the first item in the listbox that matches
- what you have typed.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.3. Previewing Icons on the Notebook Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- After an icon is highlighted in the listbox, you can preview it at the top of
- the notebook page. Simply press the enter key or double click the list item.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. Startup Parameters for IconEase ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- IconEase will accept a single input parameter from the command line or from the
- parameters entry field in its program object setting.
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- You can enter the filename of an icon catalog that has been formatted for use
- with IconEase. In that way, you can easily manage multiple collections of icon
- files. You can order a collection of over 3300 public domain icons when you
- register this shareware program. You can also send in a 3 1/2" diskette
- containing your favorite icons to be formatted for use with IconEase. Please,
- see the registration topic in this help file.
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- If you do not input a filename, the filename that you entered does not exist or
- will not open, then IconEase looks for a file named IconEase.Dat. The search
- is made in the following fashion:
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- o In the same directory as IconEase.EXE
- o In the current working directory
- o By OS/2 default through the DPATH config.sys variable
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8. Help for Key Assignments ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- The list of keys is arranged in groups.
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- HELP KEYS
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- F1
- Get help
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- F2
- Get extended help (from within any help window)
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- Alt+F4
- End help
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- F9
- Go to a list of keys (from within any help window)
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- F11
- Go to the help index (from within any help window)
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- Esc
- Previous Help Panel, or End help if only one panel
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- Alt+F6
- Go to/from help and programs
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- Shift+F10
- Get help for help
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- SYSTEM KEYS
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- Alt+F6
- Switch to the next windowed program
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- Alt+Esc
- Switch to the next program, including full-screen programs
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- Ctrl+Esc
- Switch to the Task List
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- WINDOW KEYS
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- F3
- Close a window
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- F10
- Go to/from the action bar
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- Arrow keys
- Move among choices
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- End
- Go to the last choice in a pull-down
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- Esc
- Cancel a pull-down or the system menu
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- Home
- Go to the first choice in a pull-down
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- PgUp
- Scroll the contents of the window up one page
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- PgDn
- Scroll the contents of the window down one page
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- Underlined letter
- Move among the choices on the action bar and pull-downs
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- Alt+F10
- Go to/from the action bar
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- Alt+F4 or F3
- Close the window
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- Alt+F5
- Restore the window
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- Alt+F7
- Move the window
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- Alt+F8
- Size the window
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- Alt+F9
- Minimize the window
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- Alt+F10
- Maximize the window
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- Ctrl+PgDn or Shift+F8
- Scroll the contents of the window right one page
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- Ctrl+PgUp or Shift+F7
- Scroll the contents of the window left one page
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- Shift+Esc or Alt+Spacebar
- Go to/from the system menu
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- Shift+Esc or Alt
- Go to/from the system menu of a text window
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9. IconEase Registration Form - Rel. 1.24 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Please, print this form and register IconEase.
- My Name and Address: Remit Payment and Order To:
- ________________________ Dave Lester
- ________________________ New Freedom Data Center
- ________________________ Box 461
- ________________________ New Freedom, PA. 17349
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- Qty. Description Unit Extended
- Price Price
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- ____ I would like to register the shareware program. $15 _______
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- ____ I would like to register the program and also receive over 3300 icons formatted for IconEase. $25 _______
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- ____ I would like to register the program, receive over 3300 icons formatted for IconEase AND a
- black and white printed icon catalog. $40 _______
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- ____ I have enclosed a 3 1/2" diskette containing my favorite icons. I would like to have them
- formatted for use by IconEase. $25 _______
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- ____ My company would like to register the program, receive over 3300 icons formatted for IconEase
- AND a black and white printed icon catalog for unlimited use at the following business location: $250 _______
- _________________________________
- _________________________________
- _________________________________
- _________________________________ TOTAL: _______
- Please remit payment in US dollars or check written in US dollars drawn upon US bank.
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