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- From: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Icons (Was: Re: Some suggestions for OS/2)
- Keywords: icons
- Message-ID: <272@zam103.zam.kfa-juelich.de>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 07:52:07 GMT
- References: <181jlpINNabc@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <gershon.715476775@husc10> <1992Sep3.021506.16434@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Reply-To: kiehl@ibt013.ibt.kfa-juelich.de (Horst Kiehl)
- Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (KFA), Germany
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- In article <1992Sep3.021506.16434@midway.uchicago.edu>,
- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
-
- >>5.25" disk drives should have 5.25" disks as icons (NOT 3.5" ones)
- >
- >I think someone figured out how to change the icon, but I don't
- >remember the details. Does anyone recall where that information is
- >located?
-
- >>a basic collection of icons (including those that are used by the system)
- >>for OS/2 and DOS programs and functions
-
- On the General (?) page of an object's settings notebook
- you can change it's icon. You can edit the current icon,
- use a different icon (from an icon file), and you have a third option
- which I currently don't remember (I think to use the default one).
-
- When you select to edit the icon, the WPS creates a temporary icon file
- which is opened by the Icon Editor. You can then save the icon
- under a different file name (when the Icon Editor is closed,
- the WPS uses the temporary file for the new icon).
-
- This way you can make a copy of each system icon in a separate file,
- as well as using the clipboard to cut 'n' paste
- into another Icon Editor window.
-
- I hope this helps.
-
- Best wishes,
-
- Horst
-
- PS: Returning to the subject of the disk icons...
- I have made (and am using) three icons instead of the default ones.
- I slightly changed the 3.5" diskette icon
- and made a new 5.25" diskette icon, and I have a workplace folder icon
- (which I use in a workplace folder template).
- (The latter shows the default folder with a pen on it.)
- When I discovered that the "small" instances of an icon
- (usually several instances exist, with the object as well as in a file)
- determine the appearance of the upper left button of a window,
- I changed all instances of my icons accordingly.
- (The icon of an object's template
- uses one of the small instances of the object's icon, too.)
- I'm telling this because
- I'm thinking of uploading these icons to ftp-os2
- because this might save other people a lot of work.
-