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Short: Use PersonalPaint as (New)Icon-Editor
Kurz: (New)Icons mit PPaint erstellen
Author: elmar@zfn.uni-bremen.de (Elmar Plischke)
Uploder: elmar@zfn.uni-bremen.de (Elmar Plischke)
Replaces: biz/cloan/pio_icon.*
Type: biz/cloan
Version: 5.10 (20.11.97)
Requires: PersonalPaint (Version 6.3 and higher)
personal_icon_io.library
by Bware
FEATURES
This ICON I/O library allows you to load and save images created with
PPaint as Workbench icons. You can load or save the normal or selected
image of an icon and set the type of a new icon. Tooltypes are preserved.
This version comes with NewIcons support. No need for "injectbrush" or
other utilities -- you won't even need the NewIcons patch, just newicon.library
somewhere in libs.
INSTALLATION
Please turn off automatic icon generation to get this working:
set ICONS=0 in PPAINT:PPaint_Prefs/Startup_1.set.
To install simply drop the personal_icon_io.library or the
plain MC68000 version personal_icon000_io.library in PPaint:libs.
No rename is required before use. (Anyone out there using a '000
machine ?)
NOTES
Colors are not set for non-NewIcons - get WB screen palette first.
NewIcons have a brush-palette that has to be activated with alt-b.
Icon saver supports TOOL,PROJECT,DRAWER,TRASH and DISK types.
-- this type is only set if the icon did not previously exist.
There is no consistency check between the size of the first and the selected
image. NewIcons support is turned on when the newicon.library is successfully
loaded.
The 'Both' switch in the loader/saver settings allows you load both images at
once. They are separated by a line in color 1. When saving, the upper half
of the brush is the normal and the lower the selected image. A separating line
(i.e. odd brush height) is discarded. This switch is enabled by default.
To load Disk-icons enter ":Disk.info" in the filerequester.
The use of the .info suffix is optional, but sometimes required to get around
limitations in the PPaint filerequester (i.e. writing a directory icon). To
avoid problems with graphics files without filename extensions the auto loader
only recognises .info suffixes.
NewIcons saver makes color 0 transparent, only used colors are saved. In BOTH
mode the palettes of the normal and selected image are merged. Note that
standard newicons share a common palette and have a fixed size of 36 by 40
pixels. NewIcons have a maximum size of 93x93. Saving normal and selected image
separately may save you a few bytes (Running light without overbyte :)
A switch is provided to turn NewIcons loading off and use standard WB icons.
Tooltypes are not modified when overwriting existing icons. As a consequence
NewIcons images remain intact when overwriting the file with a WB icon.
An AREXX script is supplied to allow "framed" loading of brushes.
Copy it to PPAINT:Rexx .
BUGS
Previous icon_io.library versions (<5.8) did not clear NextImage fields,
some programs (esp. Workbench Information) strongly dislike this :(
Please resave icons created with earlier versions.
PPaint clears the 'e'xecute file attribute -- use .info extension for
saving icons for existing programs.
NewIcons can contain upto 256 colors per image. When merging palettes this
may exceed the max. allowed colors for PPaint (256).
A quote from Amiga ROM Kernel Reference Manual: Libraries 3rd Ed., Icon chapter:
The image depth MUST be 2;... (but who cares? Commodore? Escom? AT? AI? Argh)
COPYRIGHT
This software was written by
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//_) Elmar Plischke <elmar@zfn.uni-bremen.de>
//__)WARE Schollstr.68 / 27755 Delmenhorst / Germany
and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRENTY.
Personal_icon_io.library was created with gcc2.7.2.1.
Icons were created by Jörn Plischke with Real3DV3.5, ArtEffect2.1.5, ADPro2.5.0
and of course PPaint7.1.
Any feedback like postcards/PPC boards/mindblowing icon collections/... welcome !
NewIcons is written by Eric Sauvageau and Phil Vedovatti.
Cloanto is a registered trademark, and Personal Paint and PPaint are
trademarks of Cloanto Italia srl.
Some code copyright © Cloanto Italia srl (Cloanto), used under permission.
The program and its accompanying files are for non-commercial use only.