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- Icon Editor 1.3
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- About....
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- Icon Editor 1.3 allows you to create and edit Windows 3.0 icons in the
- .ICO format. This makes you able to design your own icons for any application
- you would like, so you are now no longer confined to the few icons that
- Windows provides. Icon Editor runs out of Windows 3.0.
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- Requirements
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- Icon Editor 1.3 needs:
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- - DOS 2.1 or higher
- - A VGA, EGA or CGA monitor
- - Windows 3.0
- - A mouse (3 buttons recommended)
- - An AT or faster machine is recommended
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- Registering (Please Read)
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- If you like this program and use it often please register. The cost is
- only $10 (recommended) and that will go towards the development of a Icon
- Editor that will run in Windows.
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- Send registration for Icon Editor 1.3 to
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- Jason Lacombe
- 32 The Hills Rd. R.F.D #2
- Auburn, NH
- 03032
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- (Comments, suggestions and bug reports are also welcome)
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- Using
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- To begin type in "IE" <enter> - this will bring you into the Icon Editor.
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- Any of the four options at the top of the screen can be accesed through
- using the mouse. The color bars are just beneath the options. The number you
- have will depend on what type of monitor you are using. The box to the far
- right beneath the colors is what the current image looks like as an icon.
- Below that is what color you are using.
- On the left is a large box usually filled with little dots. That is
- the grid on which you will design your icon. When you have the mouse on the
- grid the following commands are in action:
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- Left Mouse Button: Turn on the icon pixel in the current
- color
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- Middle Mouse Button (Or Both): Allows you to fill in a larger area by
- dragging the mouse across the area you
- wish to fill
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- Right Mouse Button: Turns off the icon pixel and into the
- background which is represented by those
- little dots
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- If a grid space is filled with dots that means it will take the color of
- Window 3.0's background (it will be transparent). If it is a solid color then
- the color will not change depending on windows.
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- When you have finished your icon you will want to save it. Just click on
- "Load" and type in the name of your icon (followed by the ICO extension)
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- Also, to change the blinking box on the grid to the normal cursor just
- press "T" (or <SHIFT> "t"). To change back press any other key.
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- Using With Windows
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- To install an icon you must
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- - Select the icon you want to change in Program Manager
- - Select PROPERTIES in the FILE menu
- - Choose to CHANGE ICON
- - When the Select Icon box comes up, click on FILE NAME.
- - Enter the name of your icon (With the ICO extension)
- - Choose OK to return to the Program Item Properties
- - Press OK again to install the icon
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