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Documentation of Program IcoShow
Version 1.15
Date March, 15th 1993
Register at Harald Pitro
Hermann-Wuensche-Strasse 11
O - 8705 Ebersbach / Sachsen
Germany
CompuServe 100024, 2662
Registration for $35 (incl. shipping and documentation)
Table of Contents
1. Overview
2. System Requirements and Limits
3. Start and Command Line
4. INI file
4.1 Application [IcoShow]
4.2 Application [Groups]
5. Menu Commands
5.1 File Menu
5.2 Icons Menu
5.2.1 Copy / Move
5.2.2 Rename / Edit
5.2.3 Select
5.2.4 Exclude
5.3 Options Menu
5.3.1 Edit with ...
5.3.2 Repair Icons
5.3.3 Save Settings
5.3.4 Quick Delete
5.3.5 Quick Search
5.4 Window Menu
5.5 Help Menu
5.6 Properties Menu
6. Dialog Boxes
6.1 Open
6.2 Print Icons
6.3 Create Library
6.4 Select Icons
6.5 Exclude Icons
6.6 Edit with ...
6.7 Rename Icon
6.8 Select Window
6.9 Registration
6.10 Print Order Form
6.11 About IcoShow
7. Status Line
8. Hints for the use of IcoShow
9. Shareware Version
1. Overview
The number of icons in a typical Windows system today
requires a simple method of management which povides the
ability to process icons, to group them by a user-
selected method and to write them to icon files or
libraries.
IcoShow searches for icons and libraries with icons on
selected drives and/or directories (in subdirectories
also if wished) and shows the icons including their
names. Each directory containing icons becomes a new
window. After you have started IcoShow you can add
directories at any time.
You can copy or move icons from one window to another by
dragging them with the mouse. If you minimize a window,
all selected icons will be copied or moved with window
icon. If you wish to process only some of the icons in
windows, you can select/exclude icons by pattern strings
that matches the icon names.
You can write the selected icons from one window or all
windows to a new library. You can hold over 2,700 icons
in one library, but if you write more than 1,200 icons
to a library, it can not be used in another icon manager
or program manager. You can exclude duplicates of icons
while writing them to a library.
You can choose an icon editor to process icons from
IcoShow directly. If the editor chosen is capable of
command line processing, the icon will be opened
automatically and presented for editing.
If you wish to install icons in program manager, you
need only drag them from the IcoShow window to the
window of the program manager using the mouse. IcoShow
doesn't more support the installation of icons within
Windows 3.0 and Norton Desktop for Windows 1.0.
Icons or all icons selected in a window can be deleted
by the DEL key (you cannot delete icons from within
libraries). If you are an experienced user, you can
delete them simply by dragging them outside of screen.
Please be careful, IcoShow does not undelete icons!
Some older icon files contains bugs (the program manager
shows you a truncated icon image). IcoShow lets repair
you this bug.
You can print icons with any matrix, ink-jet or
laserprinter (postscript also). You may also print in
color if your printer can handle the output.
IcoShow writes the current status of the options and his
desktop in the file ICOSHOW.INI.
A status line shows you see the most important options
and some information about the processed icons.
If you need help, press F1 at any time. IcoShow will try
to find the proper help for you.
2. System Requirements and Limits
IcoShow will run under Windows 3.0 and 3.1 in standard
mode, as well as in enhanced mode. It will not run in
real mode, because there is not enough heap space.
IcoShow shows the proper image for the display from each
icon. If you have a monochrome card, you will not see
icons that only contain color images. But IcoShow
processes the icon files with all images!
The amount of icons you can process depends on the
number of displayed windows. IcoShow can display and
process up to 16,384 icons.
Look at the dialog box "About IcoShow" (Help Menu) to
see the use of heap and resources. Check this
information. If you see that "Free Heap" is very small,
close windows to free local heap. An overflow in local
heap stops IcoShow immediately.
If there are no windows or dialog boxes displayed, you
have too many opened windows.
IcoShow supports library types of DLL/NIL/ICL. IcoShow
will warn you if you try to write more than 1,200 icons
into a library. You can save over 2,700 icons within one
library but this library will not be useable by other
icon managers (this includes program manager).
3. Start and Command Line
You will usually start IcoShow without command line
arguments. If you want to use command line processing,
the syntax is:
ICOSHOW [-s] [-d] [Directory ...]
-s Include subdirectories (you can type /s for -s).
-d Don't use BWCC.DLL
DirectoryDrive and path including icons possibly.
Example : ICOSHOW -s c: d:
searches for icons the drives 'c' and 'd', including
all subdirectories, and shows all directories with
icons.
Hint: If you start IcoShow with command line
arguments, the saved desktop information in the
INI file will be ignored (see also below).
4. INI file
IcoShow saves an INI file with the status of the options
and the last desktop, so you can continue with the same
environment at the next session. The key names must
follow the application names [IcoShow] and [Groups]. All
options may be in lower or upper case.
4.1 Application [IcoShow]
Example :
Application/Key Default
[IcoShow]
SaveSettings=1 (0)
SubDir=On (Off)
Libraries=Exe,Dll,Nil,Icl (,,)
SearchNames=Off (On)
LibName=c:\win\icons.dll (-)
Run=imagedit (-)
Repair=On (Off)
Tool=Move (Copy)
Rename=On (Off)
QuickDelete=On (Off)
QuickSearch=On (On)
Select=A*