Laceless V1.1 - IconDrawers for non-interlaced Workbenches Contents Introduction - What and Why Installation - How Requirements - What Removal      - How History - What, When and Why Further work - What Copyrights   - Who Thanks       - Who Contact      - Who and How ============================================================================ Laceless V1.1 - Introduction What? Laceless is a collection of icons to replace the standard 4 colour Workbench drawers. Now non-interlaced Workbenches can have icon drawers. Why? I created the Laceless collection mainly out of boredom with my Workbench setup (sound familiar ? :-) ). I realised that for people without monitors, interlaced screens weren't an option.  All the replacement icon packages I had seen used interlaced screenmodes and looked streched on a non-interlaced screen. They also used a whole heap of colours, ruling out people without the memory for more than 4 or 8 colour Workbenches. So I set about creating some nice drawer icons for 4 colour Workbenches, THAT USED THE DEFAULT PALETTE!! (Are you listening Magic Workbench??). And just as importantly, the icons are the same dimensions as the standard Workbench ones, no more memory or screen space is needed for these icons than normal! Actually, the icons are a whole 1 pixel higher than the default drawer icons, but this is due to Workbench's method of putting the border round the icons. And there is an 8 colour icon in there - the NewIcons Prefs icon, but if you need that icon you're probably running in more than 4 colours already. I included a Laceless icon for NewIcon Prefs as I don't have NewIcons running all the time, but still have the prefs program in my prefs drawer all the time. :-) And now Laceless has grown to the point where I want some feedback from people. So I'm releasing it. Get in touch if you have ANY feedback at all. ============================================================================ Laceless V1.1 - Installation How? Just double click the Install_Icons icon and you're away. Installation uses Commorore's standard installer, so make sure you have that in your path. The script is nicer with IconPos, which comes from the Workbench 3.0 install disk. This is NOT included in the archive (see Requirements. After choosing your experience level and logfile prefs, choose Install to install the icons. The direcory Sys:Storage/Icons/Pre_Laceless is used to store your old icons DON'T DELETE THIS DIRECTORY if you think you'll ever want to remove Laceless! You'll also be asked if you want to save the Laceless installation somewhere. If you do, you'll be asked to choose a directory. An assign will be set up to this directory so that a small script file can find the icons. The script file is called "ic" and you call it with the icon file you want changing and the Laceless icon you want to copy the image from. ic requires IconPos (see Requirements). An update is basically the same as an install, but the current Laceless: assign is used to locate the install directory. Removal is by the same script. ============================================================================ Laceless V1.1 - Requirements What? The laceless Icons don't need any support programs, however the install script is much nicer if you have IconPos installed on your system. IconPos is Commorore's icon manipulation utility. It allows the install script to change the icon images without losing information such as the icon's position within a drawer, or the position and size of the icon's associated drawer. Without IconPos the script just copies the Laceless icons on top of the old ones, effectively removing ANY snapshotting that has been applied to that icon. IconPos can be found in the C drawer of the Install3.0 disk. I'm not sure if it's on any of the earlier Workbench instalation disks. ============================================================================ Laceless V1.1 - Removal How? If you should ever want to remove Laceless and retrieve your old icon set, just start up the Install_Icons script and choose Remove when asked. Installation is carried out by the same script. ============================================================================ Laceless V1.1 - History When? 9/12/96 - V1.0 Release 21/ 1/97 - V1.0.1 Update Added Icons : Incoming, Fonts, Emulation, Locale & Libs. 9/ 3/97 - V1.0.2 Update Added Icons : Demos, MagicMenu, ClassAct, Yak, Guide and Text Docs. 3/ 5/97 - V1.0.3 Update Added Icons : CD-ROM, Database, MagicMenu, MCPPrefs, NewIconsPrefs, TurboPrefs and Worms. 14/ 5/97 - V1.0.4 Update Added Icon : CDMusic. 3/ 6/97 - V1.1 Release ============================================================================ Laceless V1.1 - Further Work What? Well that's where you come in. What more do you want from Laceless? Do you want icons for applications? Are there any more general purpose IconDrawers that you need? Get in touch if you have any requests. Also look out for my set of 8 colour ToolManager dock icons, called Gavdocks, it is in pix/icons on Aminet. And if all that wasn't enough, I'm working on a set of Laceless icons for use with Deficons. And I'm considering a set of Laceless icons for use with Newicons. Send @{"me" link "me" 0} any ideas you might have for these. ============================================================================ Laceless V1.1 - Copyright Information Laceless is Email-ware. Send me an email if you use Laceless, also put an example Worbench on Aminet, there's FAR too many interlaced examples on there :-). Gifts are welcome, but not necessary, I didn't do this for money, just to make my Workbench look better :-). Laceless icons have been designed to fit around the standard Workbench icons, to do so some standard Workbench icons have been used as the basis for some of Laceless' IconDrawers. However no image used has not been at least altered by myself, therefore the Laceless Icon Set is Copyright Gavin Dodds 1996. Permission is granted for inclusion in ANY form of distribution, as long as my copyright is respected and the Laceless Icon Set is mentioned in the documentation. I'd also like to have an email informing me of which packages include Laceless icons. There should be no ADDITIONAL cost to the user for the inclusion of any Laceless icons, however normal charges may be made. I would especially like to hear from any magazines that use Laceless Icons on their cover disks/CDs. Commodore's Installer program is copyright Commodore-Amiga 1992. ============================================================================ Laceless V1.1 - Thanks and Greets Who? Thanks to anybody who helped develop the Amiga and it's OS. Thanks to Daniel Silva etc. for Dpaint. Thanks to Edd Dumbill for Heddley. Thanks to Marco Negri for Black's Editor. Thanks to Harry Doyle for trying these icons out. Who? Hi to anybody who gets on Swansea's LPMUD, Sushi! Hi to people who sent me emails:- Christian Dezert - My first response! ============================================================================ Laceless V1.1 - Contact Details Who? Gavin Dodds. Where? Gavin@eagle001.demon.co.uk Why? Laceless feedback and just a general chat if you want. ============================================================================