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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Changing the damn icons (and a lockup question!)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.200447.13514@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 20:04:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.172143.26791@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep1.184400.1899@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> pprior@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul A Prior) writes:
- >>Also, HOW DO I CHANGE THE ICON FOR A SELECTION!!!??? Such a stupid
- >>question, I know, but I have all these icons and cant get it to change
- >>them.
- >
- >What I do is open the icon view of the directory the icon files are in.
- >(From the 'Drives' folder) I click on an icon to bring up the ICON EDITOR
- >for it. I Select All, and then Copy it. I close down that icon editor.
- >Then, I bring up the icon editor for the object whose icon I wish to change.
- >I Click 'paste' from the Edit menu, and voila, it gets changed. You save
- >normally, and it is done.
- >
- >Yeah, it is cumbersome, but it works.
-
- There's an easier way. Open up the settings notebook for the object
- you want to change. Go to the last page ("General"). Click on
- "Find...", pick your .ico file, and OK it. Find works the same way as
- always. It'll look for icons in this case.
-
- >>Also - is there a way to "migrate" or install a new program without
- >>going through the migrate icon. Doing so makes me scan the entire
- >>disk (400MB) for programs when I already know the directory I want.
- >
- >I wih I knew. I wish I could just 'tell' the computer where is was!
-
- If the program isn't in the database, you can just drag a "program"
- template from the templates folder and fill in the appropriate fields
- on the first two pages.
-
- You can do this for programs in the database as well, but the DOS
- settings will be system defaults instead of the values in the
- database.
- --
- |) David Charlap "TELEPHONE, n. An Invention of the devil which
- /|_ dic5340@hertz.njit.edu abrogates some of the advantages of making a
- ((|,) disagreeable person keep his distance."
- ~|~ --- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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