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- Subject: Re: 3d icons for RO3.xx
- Message-ID: <2+2+wtj017n@bridge.welly.gen.nz>
- From: julian@bridge.welly.gen.nz (Julian Wright)
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 13:08:17 +1200
- Reply-To: wright_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Julian Wright)
- References: <1992Jul21.101037.19560@doc.ic.ac.uk>
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- ijp@oak9.doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Palmer) writes:
-
- > And one question about the various replacement window bits floating
- > about, they all seem to have a spurious icon which appears to serve no
- > useful purpose. I think it's called 'blicon' (if memory serves me
- > right, but it usually doesn't). It always seems to be defined as a
- > black bounded gery square, about 18x18 pixels. I tried changing it to
- > semething very distinctive, and nothing happened - so I can only assume
- > it's rather redundant - but it does appear in Roger Wilson's !SetIcons
- > definitions, so I assume it must do something... But then again :-)
-
- I can't say for sure, but I am guessing that in RISC OS 3.10 this sprite
- will be used in the place of the 'resize' icon for windows which have
- both scroll bars but no resize icon. In this case RISC OS 3.00 puts a
- 'transparent' box there (try it with FormEd sometime)... ie a box which
- doesn't ever get redrawn, even if things are dragged across the top of
- it.
-
- Under RISC OS 2.00 as I recall it was not possible to have both scroll
- bars but no resize icon...
-
- > Oh, and on a different note, something to wet your appetites. I shall
- > soon (probably tomorrow, if not next week) upload (to somewhere, havn't
- > decided where yet) a little (understatement of the year) application
- > called 'Word Hound' a combined thesaurus and dictionary (yes
- > dictionary, with definitions and the like). The only problem is that
- > it's big (very big - we are talking hard disc only application here)
- > and I havn't quite worked out how to split the main dictionary (2 Meg
- > of compressed data) into distributable (and recombinable) bits yet.
-
- If you have it, Spark will take an archive and produce many uuencoded
- chunks from it. Just choose Options.'uucode Split', select everything in
- the archive, and drag-save a uuencoded file from the Selection.uucode
- save box. The uuencoded files are saved with incremental filenames which
- if maintained will allow Spark or SparkPlug to recombine them later.
-
- Cheers, Julian.
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