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- Version 1.2 4-14-87
-
- The INFO pick button now will recognize a second click (in a row) and will
- select all files that have icons. A third click reverts back to single click.
-
- The wildcard text box now will accept !pattern (e.g. !*.c) and will un-select
- any file or directory that matches; if ~pattern is entered, then the action
- for any matched files is to toggle its selection.
-
-
- Version 1.2 4-2-87
-
- The semi-automatic select now will check the contents of the file if there is
- no file extension (the . convention of v1.1 is gone) or the file extension is
- not found in the icons: drawer. Two types of files are recognized.
-
- 1. IFF files of type FORM where the icon chosen is the first form type
- (actually just the 4 character name in bytes 8,9,10, and 11 (ILBM, SMUS etc.).
-
- 2. If the first word is the value for a hunk header (an executable file) then
- the icon used will be EXE.info in the icons: directory.
-
-
-
- Version 1.1
-
- This version contains a semi-automatic way of selecting icons for files.
- It reverts back to the good ol' days of file extensions to describe file
- type. So, any file extension like .c, .o, .doc, .pic, etc. will be used
- to determine the icon from the icons: drawer where one can have a nice
- library. Two special cases, misc is used if the extension does not have
- a counterpart in the icons: drawer, and the file . (yes, just dot) is used
- if a file has no extension, kind of a catch all.
-
-
- Version 1.0
- Iconmaker is most useful when it is readily available on the system
- disk.
-
- The best way to install the iconmaker into your system is to place the
- executable iconmaker onto you system disk in the C: directory and the
- rest of the files
-
- project, project.info
- tool, tool.info
- drawer, drawer.info
-
-
- in this kit into a directory also on the system disk, for example
- sys:icon_templates. Then add the following line to your system startup
- file
-
- sys:s/startup-sequence:
-
- assign icons: sys:icon_templates
-
- Note that the file drawer is not supplied since it is a directory file
- that must be created as for example,
-
- makedir sys:icon_templates/drawer
-
- The files TOOL and PROJECT have been provided in the kit although they
- are only dummy files that are necessary so you can use the workbench
- option INFO on the icon files (likewise, the sub-directory drawer is not
- used by iconmaker but permits one to manipulate the icon files from the
- workbench).
-
- Iconmaker can be invoked from workbench as well as cli, so you may want
- to create a project icon file in the root level of the system disk that
- has as its default tool c:iconmaker. When you want to run iconmaker on
- the files in a directory that has an icon, do an extended selection of
- iconmaker and the icon for the drawer (in that order). This is
- equivalent to typing
-
- iconmaker device:drawer
-
- to the cli.
-
- Note that there is nothing magic about the name iconmaker, you may
- shorten it to anything you want.
-