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- ICONISER
-
- By Michael Saunby
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- INTRODUCTION
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- Features
- Iconiser generates icons for invisible files so they may be moved, copied,
- duplicated, or discarded from the workbench without executing a single CLI
- command.
- Iconiser can discard an icon without discarding the file, making the file
- visible.
- Iconiser runs from the Workbench or the CLI.
- Iconiser does not enable copies to be made of copy protected disks, indeed
- Iconiser should never be used on any original disk.
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- Requirements
- Iconiser requires Workbench 1.2. Iconiser accesses the icon library on the
- Workbench disk so you may be asked to insert the Workbench disk when you
- start Iconiser. This is the only time the Workbench disk is needed so when
- the disk lamp goes out it may be removed.
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- WARNINGS
- Iconiser uses RAM: the ram disk device. If RAM: is not already open
- Iconiser will open it, consequently you may notice a small decrease in
- available memory.
- For some programs it will be possible to run them as workbench tools.
- Others such as the CLI commands on the Workbench disk cannot be run in
- this way, though it is usually possible to use a program such as Xicon to
- run them. See the iconiser options section before using Iconiser to
- create icons for programs to be run from the Workbench
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- HOW TO USE ICONISER
- Iconiser is simple to use. Click once on Iconiser, press and hold a
- shift key and then click twice on the disk to which you wish to add
- icons. If the disk was already open, close it, then open again to
- reveal any new icons. If the disk was closed, open it to reveal the
- icons.
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- If you have only one disk drive, Iconiser is easier to use if copied
- to RAM: the ram disk device.
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- Multiple selection.
- Multiple selection may be used with Iconiser. Click once on Iconiser,
- hold a shift key and click once on each drawer or disk to be processed
- except the last. Click twice on the last disk or drawer.
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- Removing icons with Iconiser.
- To remove the icon from a tool or project, click once on Iconiser, hold
- a shift key and click twice on the icon to be removed. A requester will
- appear at the top left corner of the screen; it looks like this:
-
-
- ---------------------------------------
- |System Request ====================[][]|
- |---------------------------------------|
- | Discard icon "myprog" |
- | Warning: you cannot get |
- | back what you discard |
- | |
- | --------------- ------------ |
- | ok to discard forget it! |
- | --------------- ------------ |
- ---------------------------------------
-
- To remove the icon click on 'ok to discard', to cancel click on
- 'forget it!'. Multiple selection can be used when removing icons, the
- requester will appear for each file.
- To remove the icon from a drawer requires Iconisers delete mode to be
- switched on. This is done by entering the following text into iconisers
- tool types:
- DELMODE=ON
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- Iconiser options
- In addition to DELMODE there are two other modes which can be set. They
- are set using the IFFTYPES and TOOLTYPE options.For projects there is
- the IFFTYPES option, this is used to set a default tool for IFF files.
- eg
- IFFTYPES=ILBM ILBM=:ShowILBM
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- Other possible options are SMUS or FTXT or any other ILBM FORM. A vertical
- bar should be used to separate types. eg
- IFFTYPES=ILBM|FTXT
- ILBM=Workbench:ShowILBM
- FTXT=:ShowText
-
- For tools there is the TOOLTYPE option, this determines whether an icon is
- created for the tool itself or for a script file to be executed by another
- program eg Xicon.
- TOOLTYPE=PROJECT or TOOLTYPE=TOOL
- TOOLNAME=C:XICON
- TOOLTEXT=(NAME) argument
-
- The variable (NAME) can be used in the TOOLTEXT argument; (NAME) will be
- replaced by the name of the program. After any substitution has been made
- the text is written to a file with the name of the program with the
- character '-' appended. A project type icon is created for this file.
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- Summary of options
- DELMODE=ON or DELMODE=OFF default is OFF
- IFFTYPES=ILBM|FTXT default no IFF types set
- ILBM={path1}{prog1}
- FTXT={path2}{prog2}
- TOOLTYPE=PROJECT or TOOLTYPE=TOOL default is TOOL
- TOOLNAME={path}{prog} no default, if not set TOOLTYPE defaults to
- TOOL
- TOOLTEXT=(NAME) no default, if not set TOOLTYPE defaults to TOOL
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- nb case is important in tool types entries.
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- ERROR MESSAGES
- Iconiser uses requesters to indicate various errors such as write
- protected disks or incorrect usage. Click on one of the "ok" boxes to
- remove the requester and continue.
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- CLI USAGE
- Iconiser will create icons when used from the CLI, none of the options can
- be used. The CLI usage is:
- ICONISER dirname
- Where dirname is the name of the directory or drive. An alternative usage
- for single drive machines is:
- ICONISER ?
- iconiser will prompt with
- DIR:
- now swap the disk and type df0: or df0:dirname.
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