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RAWBInfo
© 1999/2000 by Stephan Rupprecht
All rights reserved.
COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
RAWBInfo is copyrighted 1999-2000 by Stephan Rupprecht.
All rights reserved. This program is freeware, so no financial
donations required. Redistribution allowed if the package is
left unchanged. The author is not responsible for any damage
caused by the use or misuse of this documentation and/or the
program(s) it describes.
REQUIREMENTS
Any Amiga® (compatible) computer with at least OS3.5 and
68020+ cpu.
gtdrag.library v3+ for drag'n'drop support from one RAWBInfo
window to another one.
DESCRIPTION
RAWBInfo is a replacement for the AmigaOS3.5 icon information.
Unlike the original one, this one uses ReAction for the user
interface.
STARTING THE PROGRAM
The program can be started from shell as well as workbench. It
currently takes the following arguments:
SDT=SHORTDATETIME/S,AC=ALLCONTROLS/S,C=CENTERED/S,SBB=SIZEBBOTTOM/S,
DNI=DROPNEWICONSDATA/S,DP=DROPPLANARDATA/S,MV=MULTIVIEW/K,LOADPATH/K,
SAVEPATH/K,TOOLS/M
SDT=SHORTDATETIME/S: this option tells RAWBInfo to use the
short date and time format of the current locale. Enabling it
makes the icon information windows a bit smaller.
AC=ALLCONTROLS/S: no function as of 1.8.
CENTERED/S: if set, information windows will be opened in the center
of the screen.
SIZEBBOTTOM/S: makes the bottom border of information windows as high
as the sizing gadget.
DNI=DROPNEWICONSDATA/S: when an icon was originally saved in NewIcons
format, setting this option keeps icon.library from saving the
information back to the .info file.
DP=DROPPLANARDATA/S: setting this option will keep icon.library from
storing any pre OS3.5 image data.
MV=MULTIVIEW/K: The path were multiview can be found. Default: Sys/
Utilities/Multiview.
LOADPATH/K: initial path of the "Icon Image/Load ..." filerequester
(see later).
SAVEPATH/K: initial path of the "Icon Image/Save ..." filerequester
(see later).
TOOLS/M: a list of default tools that are available when you click
on the dropdown chooser (that's the button on the _right_ side of
the default tool string gadget).
Example: TOOLS="MultiView" "Installer"
Once the program has been started it can be removed by either
sending CTRL-C to it, by the system tool Exchange or by starting
it a second time.
USAGE
Well, if you know how to use the original icon information, you'll
know how to use this replacement ;) So, I will just mention the
extras here:
° dropping an icon on the window will open another icon information
window with information on the dropped icon.
° if you drop an icon on the tooltypes gadget, the program will replace
the current tooltypes with the one the dropped icon has.
° the default tool of a project can also be changed by drag&drop.
° double-clicking the icon will open the workbench object.
° you can dragNdrop icons from one rawbinfo window to another one
(requires gtdrag.library by Axel Dörfler, dev/gui/gtdrag#?.lha).
° starting 1.7 the following menu functions are available:
Project
============
Next activate and bring to front the next rawbinfo window.
Previous same as above but the previous one.
------------
Save save the icon to disk.
Save as allows you to save the icon as default one to disk.
default icon
...
------------
Delete icon delete icon.
------------
About program copyright and version.
------------
Quit guess what it does ;)
Type the Type menu allows you to change the icon type.
============
Disk
Drawer
Project
Tool
Garbage
Icon Image
============
Default get default image (supports DefIcons).
Copy copies current icon image to the clipboard.
Paste replaces current icon image with the one
stored in the clipboard.
Restore restore original icon image.
------------
Convert to allows you to convert any old style icon
palette to an os3.5 color icon.
mapped
------------
Show clip .. shows contents of the clipboad (see also
MULTIVIEW/K option).
IconEdit ... starts IconEdit.
------------
Load ... replace the current icon image with another one.
Save ... allows you to save the current image to disk.
------------
Frameless make the icon frameless (works only for os3.5
coloricons, not for NewIcons!).
Drop don't save NewIcons back in the NewIcons format.
NewIcons
data
Drop planar remove any old style image data from the icon.
data
Tooltypes
============
Clear clear all tooltypes.
Sort sort,
------------
Disable all disable,
Enable all enable,
Toggle toggle them ;)
------------
Restore restore original tooltypes.
INSTALLATION
Simply use the supplied Installer script.
SPECIAL THANKS GO TO
Thomas Richter for his help.
Nils Görs for the bug reports,
Roland Florac, Francis Labrie, Aleksandr, Alfredo Soro
Adam Chodorowski for the catalogs.
HISTORY
1.0 first public release for os35 betatesters.
1.1 various changes. supports localisation now.
1.2 added AC=ALLCONTROLS/S and SDT=SHORTDATETIME/S options.
fixed Enforcer hit on exit (FreeClass() stub instead
of inline was used). Thanks to Nils Goers for the bug
report.
1.3 More than 127 tooltypes weren't supported (crashed badly).
Fixed. Thanks again to Nils Goers :)
1.4 included french catalog by R.Florac (Roland, there's something
wrong with your email account, I wasn't able to reply to your
message). some internal changes I can't remember ;) Changed the
way the icon gadget reacts to mouse clicks, now it behaves
like workbench icons (well, almost;).
1.5 Calculation of drawersize can be aborted at any time now. fixed
small bug in icon duplication function.
1.6 added CENTERED/S,SIZEBBOTTOM/S,TOOLS/M options.
1.7 released to my homepage. added a couple of new functions, the majority
of them were adapted from SwazInfo (Icon Image menu/Tooltypes menu ...).
Added drag'n'drop support via gtdrag.library. misc house-keeping
changes. included russian catalog by Aleksandr <nikolya@bios.iuf.net>,
new french one by Francis Labrie and a spanish catalog by
Alfredo Soro.
1.8 swedish catalog by Adam Chodorowski. changed the user interface
a bit (still has to be improved) and added some more "SwazInfo
functions". ALLCONTROLS/S option is obsolete now, the layout code tries
its best to make the gui fit on the screen.
AUTHOR
Please send bug reports and ideas to:
Stephan Rupprecht
Apfeldweg 1
D44359 Dortmund
Germany
Send emails to
stephan.rupprecht@gmx.de
WWW
http://home.debitel.net/user/stephan.rupprecht
http://go.to/stephanr (not confirmed yet)