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IconType
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This is a quick hack that allows you to change the type of any icon
that you have. BE CAREFUL! Don't go around changing icons arbitrarily.
You should probably use IconType as the last step in your icon editing
sequences. There are five types of icons that you can choose from.
Please see the directory "Icon Examples" for samples of these five
types.
NOTE: THIS PROGRAM CAN ONLY BE RUN IN THE CLI!
CLI Command format:
IconType <c> <name>
where: <name> is the name of the icon WITHOUT '.info' appended, and
<c> is a single character indicating the type of icon you want,
selected from the following set:
t Tool
p Project
r dRaweR (sorry, but it couldn't conflict with..)
d Disk
g Garbage (i.e. Trash Can)
As an example, suppose you want a fancy icon to use for an Xicon script
(named "marvelscript"... why be modest.). You generate a nice brush with
DPaint, and create "marvelscript.info" from it using ZapIcon. Unfortunately
ZapIcon always creates a Tool icon, but Xicon requires a Project type,
so you just enter:
IconType p marvelscript
and you have a useable icon/file pair.
Notes & warnings: A DISK type icon is not visible on the workbench screen
unless it is named 'disk.info' and is in the root directory. DON'T try to
use an icon which is the wrong type for its associated item, unless you are
willing to accept unexpected consequences. (And there may be a lot of these!)
Experiment at your own risk.
(By the way, if you use Info from the WorkBench menu to check the icon type,
note that any change you make with IconType will NOT show up until you
CLOSE and reopen the drawer containing the icon.)
Pete Goodeve
1987 March 30
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IconType2
There is another IconType program on this disk. This is in
the directory "APDC # 015:IconType2." This directory is only
accesible through the CLI, (ie., no WorkBench icons). Once in
CLI, examine this directory for program instructions in file
README. File IconType2.c contains source code.
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