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 Most of this is probably out of date, but hey.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