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- January 19, 1992
-
- << IconToolsII >>
-
- by Richard Mazzarisi
-
- written in Jforth Professional 2.0 by Delta Research
-
-
- Introduction:
-
- These programs are two tools for managing icons under the
- Workbench. The package consists of four programs, namely FloatIcon,
- ReplaceTool, SwapColors and ReplaceImage. (FloatIcon and
- ReplaceImage are updates from the original set.) They have been done
- before, but I have never seen such tools that worked totally as an
- Workbench based operation or allowed you to manipulate many icons in
- one operation. So I decided to write them.
-
- They are self documenting; just double click the icon to see the
- instructions.
-
- These programs not public domain but are freely distributable as
- long as they are distributed with this notice and only a nominal fee
- is charged for the disks to cover the cost of distribution. They may
- be included in Fred Fish's collection and in Delta Research's
- JGoodies disks.
-
- NOTE: The author assumes no responsibility for any damages
- resulting from the use of these programs.
-
-
- ReplaceTool 2.04:
-
- ReplaceTool allows you to change the default tool of any number
- of project icons all at once. This is useful when installing a
- program and some projects created by it onto a disk which will have a
- different path from that of the distribution disk. Usually double
- clicking the project icon would result in a program not found error.
- Then you had to type the new path into each icon using "info" from
- the Workbench menu, one by one! Now instead you can just click on
- ReplaceTool and shift click on all the project icons and the tool to
- be used. That tool's path and name will be placed in the DefaultTool
- slot of the icon.
-
- And how about all those README files whose icons all have some text
- file browser in a subdirectory of the original disk as their default tool;
- less has no icon, you say. Well, there is a second way to use ReplaceTool.
- If you shift click ONLY on project icons, ReplaceTool will open the ARP file
- requester with which you can specify the tool and its path. The default
- directory will be SYS:, and of course you may click the buttons and names to
- get the path and tool you desire. Or you may type the path and name into the
- string requesters. You may type ANY path or name into the requesters
- regardless of what is shown in the window; so that a relative path is
- possible such as "/" to use a tool one directory up from where the project
- lives, ":<path>" to indicate the current disk, or blank it out entirely to
- indicate the same directory. You just type the appropriate path into the
- drawer string requester AFTER getting the correct file name to show in the
- file string requester with the gadgets, or just type in both path and file
- names. (With Workbench 2.0's ASL file requester you may get a 'Directory
- Error' if the directory name doesn't directly relate to the directory shown
- in the window. This may be safely ignored; the string typed in will be the
- one used.)
-
- If you are using Workbench 1.3 or earlier and want to use the
- second option, you must have the arp.library (version 39 or greater)
- installed in your LIBS: directory. For Workbench 2.0 the ASL
- requester is used.
-
-
- FloatIcon 1.05:
-
- FloatIcon is a spinoff of Replacetool, basically it was practice
- at accessing the icon info and writing it back. It simply lets you
- make an icon free floating again after it has been "Snapshot". This
- means that the Workbench will decide where it should be placed when a
- drawer is opened rather than putting it at a fixed position.
-
- Having the icons free floating seems to work better with Dave
- Navas' JazzBench since it does a more intelligent job of icon
- placement than the Workbench, so that the names don't overlap.
- (AmigaDos 2.0 does a better job at this than 1.3)
-
- To use it just shift click on all the icons that you want to
- float after clicking first on SwapColors, double clicking on the last
- one. This program is here only for Workbench 1.3 users since 2.0 has
- a menu item to accomplish the same end.
-
-
- SwapColors 1.01
-
- SwapColors is used to reverse the colors 1 and 2 in the icons.
- This is necessary for users of Workbench 2.0 to make icons which were
- used under 1.3 look better under the new version. Only four color
- icons are altered by SwapColors. If an icon has more than four
- colors it will be skipped over with a notification of that fact. If
- an icon has a separate image for the selected state, swapcolors will
- do the color swap on both images.
-
- This program is used in the same way as FloatIcon; just click on
- SwapColors followed by shift clicking on all the icons that you wish
- to change the colors on.
-
-
- ReplaceImage 1.01
-
- ReplaceImage will change the image of a number of icons to be
- the same as the first one clicked. This can be used, for example, to
- transform all your 1.3 drawer icons into the 2.0 style. This program
- replaces only the gadget structure of an icon and will leave the
- DefaultTool and ToolTypes as they were.
-
- To use ReplaceImage you MUST shift click on the icon whose image
- you want to use right after clicking on ReplaceImage, then shift
- click on all the icons which are to receive this image, double
- clicking on the last one.
-
- JAZZBENCH USERS NOTE!!
- Jazzbench 0.8 passes arguments in reverse order from Workbench,
- so you MUST click on the icon whose image is to be used LAST!
-
-
- Compiling the programs:
-
- In order to recompile these programs you need the Jforth
- Professional 2.0 Amiga developement package from Delta research.
- Assign JARP: to the directory where the arp header file and support
- file may be found. The other standard assigns for JForth are assumed
- to be set. The asl_support file should be put into ju:. And you
- will need the following include files in ji: libraries/asl.j,
- utility/hooks.j and utility/tagitem.j:, and the asl_lib.fd file in
- the JForth:fd.files drawer.
-
-
-
- NOTE:
- Under Workbench 1.3 the changes effected by these programs do
- not take effect until the icons are reread from the disk. So it is
- necessary to close the drawers involved and to reopen them before
- using the modified icons. Under version 2.0 the changes take
- effect immediately.
-
-
- Richard Mazzarisi
- 891 Post St. #207
- San Francisco, CA 94109
-
-
-
- email:
- rich@californium.cchem.berkeley.edu
- rich@bloch.cchem.berkeley.edu
- rmazz@hydrogen.cchem.berkeley.edu
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