.name
ICON_TOOLBOX
.type
Workbench Tool
.short
Manipulates/organizes icons.
.description
Function List:

 a. Create icons of any size and up to 256 colours from paint files.
    Automatically works out the type of the icon. Double image icons
    can be made from 2 pictures with totally different sizes and depths,
    also you can manually position the 2 pictures relative to each other.
 b. Smart window cleanup: much better than workbench's window cleanup.
    The cleanup is always 100% tight: if there's a free slot, it will be
    found! The positioning of icons is also more structured than that
    of workbench. Many practical heuristics are enforced.
 c. Mass produce zillions of icons (iconization) with many options.
 d. Mass stretching of icons in a directory.
 e. Mass palette remappings of icons.
 f. Mass change of an icon default tool.
 g. Convert an icons tool types to text file and vice versa.
 h. Convert icons into paint files with a minimum of fuss.
 i. Stretch icons. Perform 2 way stretch/shrink on an icon.
 j. Tile a sphere with an icon or picture.
 k. Remap an icon palette: for when you change your workbench palette.
 l. Cut a smaller paint file (a brush) out of a bigger paint file.
 m. Copy an icon to another object NOT necessarily of the same type.
 n. Mass mapping of icons onto spheres.
 o. Stretch a picture.
 p. Tile a sphere with a picture.
 q. Change the colour-palette/number-of-bitplanes/resolution of a
    picture so that destination resembles source.
 r. Switch the type of an icon: switch between garbage and directory,
         switch between data file and programme file.
 s. Implement the colours of a paint file onto the workbench screen.
 t. Examine an icon: give info about an icon. Compared to Workbench info
    the emphasis is on the icon rather than on the associated object.
.version
2.12
.date
1995.03.22
.author
Richard Biswas
.distribution
Shareware
.price
£10
.address
Flat 1
61 Warminster Road
LONDON
SE25 4DQ
.tested
The programme has been tested on the following:

version 3.0:  Tested on an Amiga 1200, works perfectly.
version 2.0:  Tested on an Amiga 500 with 2.04 ROM, works perfectly.
version 1.3:  Tested on a version 1.2 Amiga 500 with software upgrade to 1.3:
              Also tested on an Amiga 1200 downgraded to 1.3 using the Relok1.3
              programme. In both cases works perfectly.

version 1.2:  Tested on a version 1.2 Amiga 500: PROBLEMS OCCUR. iconizing
                ram: can result in df0: being iconized instead. See section
                6.

If you have tested this on other configurations please write and tell me and
I'll update this. Also if NTSC users have any problems they should write and
explain and I'll try and take corrective action.

The programme works differently on different machines. It works out what machine
its on and then may or may not say certain things accordingly: this is because
icons behave slightly differently on different machines eg on an Amiga 1200
you can update all icons including ram:'s by opening a CLI, closing the
workbench window and then typing loadwb from the cli.
.docs
ICON_TOOLBOX/Function_List
ICON_TOOLBOX/README_FIRST
ICON_TOOLBOX/registration
ICON_TOOLBOX/manual/compatibility
ICON_TOOLBOX/manual/design_philosophy
ICON_TOOLBOX/manual/Good_form
ICON_TOOLBOX/manual/Icon_copying_feature
ICON_TOOLBOX/manual/Icon_from_Art_programme
ICON_TOOLBOX/manual/Lots_of_ram
ICON_TOOLBOX/manual/NTSC_and_PAL
ICON_TOOLBOX/manual/pre_1.2_machines
ICON_TOOLBOX/manual/Smart_Window_Cleanup
.described-by
Richard Fish (rjf@amigalib.com)
.submittal
Submitted on disk directly by the author.
.aminet-dir
util/wb
.execute
LAB Start
set choice `RequestChoice "Options Selection" "Please select an option" "View ReadMe" "View Doc" "Run Program" "Cancel"`
if $choice GT "0"
  if $choice EQ "1"
    MetaTool ICON_TOOLBOX/README_FIRST TEXT
  else
    if $choice EQ "2"
      set filechoice `RequestFile TITLE "Select Doc File" PATTERN "~(#?.info)" DRAWER "ICON_TOOLBOX/manual"`
      MetaTool $filechoice TEXT
      unset filechoice
    else
      if $choice EQ "3"
        ICON_TOOLBOX/ICON_TOOLBOX
      endif
    endif
  endif
  skip Start BACK
endif