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Iconian v1.97 beta
Last minute notes about Aminet upload:
I hopefully fixed the problems running under the Piccasso gfx board.
Thanks to those that helped.
I also eliminated the Enforcer hits when selecting a font. This should
also fix the occasional crashes when doing same.
I played around with the palette window code yet again. Maybe this time
it'll work under Kickstart 3.1????? LET ME KNOW. SEND SCREEN GRABS,
DETAILS, ETC! PLEASE. Otherwise, until I can buy Kickstart 3.1, you're
fucked.
Keyfile handling should be a bit more stable. Had reports of Iconian
looking everywhere from SYS: to corrupt volume names. SnoopDOS now
shows Iconian looking in the correct places...
Only 2 catalogs that'll work under Iconian 1.97. The German (Deutsch)
and French (Français). The other two were never updated from 1.90.
Sorry...
More notes:
First off, this is a pretty major update over 1.90. So please
refamiliarize yourself with it...?
For those of you who are returning, please note MANY bugs have been
cornered, trapped, and squashed. The most major (in my mind) was a
memory corrupting one associated with filled circles. (YEA!).
Unfortunatly, I really messed up the iconify options, trying to clean up
the code. I could revert to the older one, which worked 50% of the
time, but I decided to just trash it for now. This may be temporary, or
it may be permanent. This depends on my commitment to continue work on
this project in the future.
I've received numerous complaints (comments?) about Iconian's palette
window not working correctly (or not at all) under Kickstart 3.1. I
have to tell you it works 100% under KS 3.0. I don't have access to KS
3.1, so I don't know what's wrong, and I can't fix it. I tried to add
some error handling code to the gadget layout routine, tried doing
things in different ways, etc. But all reports still point to it not
working. *sigh* I'm sorry...
If you are a NEW USER, please take a good look at my program. I've
grown real proud of it lately. I'm offering a very cheap registration
for anyone interested. There are several ways of receiving a registered
version... read the .guide to find out how.
Now for a copy of the old news. Most of this is probably out of date,
but hey. I wanted to waste some space.
Notes about 1.93
Ok, I've decided to continue work on this puppy. So shoot me for
changing my mind.
There are alot of new minor features. Hope you find them all! (hint:
read the history.txt file!!!)
Quite a few bug fixes too. It seems more stable. But there are still
problems with Iconify, and filled shapes. These bugs elude me when I
look for them, but continue showing their ugly faces. They don't really
crash the machine, only corrupt the memory list (yellow recovery). Good
luck, you will need it.
Iconian v1.90 beta
Well, I tire of this project. So I'm unleashing it upon the
unsuspecting Amiga community. Take it as a god-send wonder, or as an
example for the value of the DELETE command. I made this program to fit
my taste. It may also be yours, or it may be the ugliest thing you've
ever seen. I don't really care at this point.
Just some thing's I will mention to make using this monster a bit
easier.
When you select "SAVE" or "Save Prefs", this will also save the window
positions and sizes. Then, next time you start Iconian, your new
positions will be used instead of the NTSC 640x200 defaults. This may
be a pain, though, if you are constantly changing your Iconian
preferences...
Also, the preference window doesn't contain any documentation.
Remap Brushes: If ON, a FindColor will be used to determine pen color.
This should be ON for about 99% of all cases.
Immediate draw: If this is ON, then as soon as you click inside a
window, you will start drawing. This is useful if you are drawing in
both the magnified window and the viewer windows. If OFF, then you must
first activate the window, then click a second time to start drawing.
Use crosshairs: This is an easy one. Turn it off if you don't like my
crosshair sprite.
Save Eight: This forces all saved icons to eight planes. This is the
way original MagicWB icons are saved. They are usually bigger than
neccessary, due to extra plane info. But, they are able to be displayed
correctly under different screen depths. Remember WorkBench 3.0 has a
funny way of determining palette colors and pens...
Relative Coords: This gadget is not connected, so don't expect it to
work.
Visible Grid: This will draw lines between the magnified pixels. Only
works at higher magnifications. Be forewared that this is SLOW. Use at
will.
Mag Draw Only: This means you will unable to draw within the viewer
windows.
Obey Locks: Turning this OFF will allow you to edit ANY RGB values on
the public screen. Only use this if you know what you are doing!
Strip Planes: This overrides Save Eight. If ON, Iconian will search
for the highest used color in the icon, and strip any extra planes.
Don't Lend: Left over from previous versions, and does NOTHING.
The 't' key will bring up the "enter text" window.
Pressing the 'T' key will bring up the font requester.
Pressing the RETURN key will change from the current brush to text mode.
Pressing 'B' will recall the last cut brush after selecting "enter
text".
To receive a version without the annoying requesters, (Or for any
latest version I may have done.) send me a SASE envelope, a blank disk,
and 10$ (U.S.).
Ok, have fun. C.Randall February 26, 1994.
contact me at
USNAIL: Chad Randall
229 S.Washington
Manchester, Michigan
48158-9680 USA
(313)428-0113 voice
INTERNET: crandall@garnet.msen.com