HERMES' ICONLAB (Version 1.0) Copyright (c) 1988 A. G. Kartsatos *** Shareware *** TO RUN IT IMMEDIATELY: CLI: PRESS "ICONLAB" or "RUN ICONLAB". WORKBENCH: CLICK into the ICONLAB icon. TO EXIT: Click into the WINDOWCLOSE gadget or PRESS the TAB KEY or CLICK into the LONG RECTANGLE at the BOTTOM of the screen. GET RID OF THAT UGLY BLACK COLOR ON YOUR PREFERENCES (IF YOU HAVE IT). REPLACE IT BY SOMETHING LIKE A BEIGE COLOR. YOUR WORKBENCH AND YOUR ICONS WILL LOOK SO MUCH BETTER! Here is a nice program that will let you see your icons and their alternate images without having to go to the Workbench. I wrote it because I am tired of having to construct a new icon for a drawer in order to see all the icons in it from the Workbench. I also don't like to scroll a Workbench window to see the icons in it when it is full of them. The program will also allow you to change various icon parameters like ICON TYPE, HIGHLIGHTING, DEFAULT TOOL, TOOL TYPES and STACK. To SEE an ICON, choose it from the file requester table and then click into the LOAD gadget. To see its ALTERNATE image, just click into the TOGGLE gadget. You can thus toggle between the two images of an icon provided there is an alternate image. Just because an icon changes colors when you click into it, it does not necessarily mean that there is an alternate image. GADGETS: 9 DRIVES: The nine DRIVE gadgets on the left allow you to attach to anyone of those drives. If you don't have VD0:, or VDK, or any one of the other drives, it does not matter. Just cancel the requestor when it shows up. The program starts by attaching first to your RAM: volume. From then on you can attach to any of 9 drives listed by clicking into them. You can also attach to any drive/directory by entering it into the DRAWER gadget and pressing return. PARENT: This gadget allows you to attach to the parent directory, if you are not already at the top. LOAD: The LOAD gadget loads an icon into the large rectangular area on the right. If the icon is bigger than that area, it auto- matically gets loaded into its own window, whose dimensions are commensurable with those of the icon itself. Before you load an icon, you must click into its name (ending with .info) first. SAVE: You may change the following characteristics of an icon: ICON TYPE, HIGHLIGHTING, DEFAULT TOOL, TOOL TYPES, STACK You should always use the up/down arrows to change the para- meters in ICON TYPE and HIGHLIGHTING. You can thus change ANY icon type to ANY other icon type very easily. Do not change the highlighting to IMAGE if the icon does not already have an ALTERNATE image. Remember: if you change the ICON TYPE to DISK and its name is disk.info, you usually need to reboot in order to see the icon on the Workbench. The SAVE gadget saves the icon to the pathname given by the user in the DRAWER/FILE gadgets. The program does check to see if the volume/directory in the DRAWER gadget exists. Make sure that the parameters on the right are the ones that you actually want to save. Again, use the ADD and DEL gadgets in order to ADD and DELETE TOOL TYPES, respectively. Otherwise, your icons will not be saved right. TOGGLE: Toggles between the main and the alternate image of the icon that has been loaded. DELETE: Deletes the file whose pathname is in the DRAWER/FILE gadgets. ATTENTION: (1) If your icon is TOO BIG, its window will not have a TOGGLE and an EXIT gadget. Just PRESS "T" or "t" to see its alter- nate icon and "Q" or "q" to exit into the main window. (2) If you get the message: "Cannot Open The Icon Window", EXIT the program because you don't have enough memory left to open a large icon's window. @@-->>> HERMES THIS IS A SHAREWARE PROGRAM. IF YOU USE THE PROGRAM, PLEASE SEND $15.00 TO A. G. 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