*********************************************************** * IE - THE COMPLETE ICON EDITOR (version 1.0) * *********************************************************** by Peter Kiem 8 Southern Close, Chisholm A.C.T. 2905 DISCLAIMER: You have the right to freely use, copy and distribute this program as long as the following conditions are met: 1. The program and documentation are not modified in any way; 2. The program is not used or included in any package for profit unless written consent from the author is obtained. NOTE: The author does not accept any responsibility for any damage that might result from the use of this program. For a A$20 donation, the source code is available from the author at the listed address. This source code is made available for other programmers as a guide to Amiga programming and is not to be used to distribute modified copies. If you have modifications (improvements etc) please send them to the author. These modifications will be included in the next version at the author's discretion with an appropriate recognition of the programmer in the program messages. FROM THE AUTHOR: Now we have dispensed with all the boring legal stuff, we can now get down to the interesting stuff: I am a CSO2 programmer with the Commonwealth Public Service. I own an Amiga 500 with 1 Meg memory, A590 Hard Drive and an external floppy drive. The compiler I own is Manx Aztec C version 3.6a. I wrote IE mainly as an exercise in learning Amiga C, but it started out with a dissatisfaction with the supplied icon programs (ICONED and ICONMERGE). I was disgusted with the fact that dual-render icons (icons that change picture when selected) could only be created by using ICONED to make two icons and ICONMERGE to join the icons together. ICONED also did not allow you to edit the dual-render icons so created. I also have some large icons from off the public domain which were too large to be edited with ICONED. I then resolved to create an icon editor with all conceiveable icon functions with the capability of creating REALLY LARGE dual-render icons. I hope that you find this program useful and you include it on your system as a replacement to ICONED. FEATURES OF IE: IE has the following abilities: - Can create icons up to 640x200 pixels. - Handles creation and editing of dual-rendered icons. - Uses scroll bars for ease of moving around icon bitmap. - Icon preview function allows you to see what your icon will look like without leaving the program. Any changes made to the icon bitmap can be seen immediately in the preview. - Detaches from CLI for background running. - Able to edit miscellaneous aspects of the icon including the aspects edited by the WorkBench menu item "INFO" - Icon Type (DISK/DRAWER/PROJECT/TOOL/GARBAGE) - Icon Select Highlight (COMPLEMENT/BACKFILL/ALTERNATE PIC) - Position of Icon (including FIND BEST POSITION) - Stack Size (for project and tool icons) - Default Tool (for disk and project icons) - Definitions of up to 10 Tool Type strings - Size and placement of opened window (for disk, drawer and garbage icons). - Flood fill colouring. - Iconify to shrink windows. - Write Icon as C Code so your programs can write their own icons. (Can also be used to generate C Code for 2 bitplane images so you can use IE to create gadget images and save them as C Code for inclusion in your programs). FEATURES YET TO BE IMPLEMENTED: Version 2.0 is in the pipeline for completion when I find the time to finish it. The proposed features are as follows: - A better file requester. - Read IFF picture as an icon bitmap. - Write icon as IFF picture. To allow the use of more sophisicated packages' editing. - Miscellaneous ideas too numerous to mention... CALLING IE: IE can be run from either the workbench or from the CLI. To run IE from the CLI the following call is used: IE [filename] where filename is an optional parameter which is the icon to load. NOTE: IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO HAVE THE .INFO IN THE FILENAME. THIS IS REMOVED BEFORE LOADING THE ICON AS THE SYSTEM ROUTINES DON'T LIKE IT. ICONIFY FUNCTION: By selecting ICONIFY from the IE menus, all IE windows are closed and a small window is opened. This allows you to get IE totally out of the way temporarily. This small window can then be dragged to anywhere on the screen. To un-iconify IE simply activate the window by clicking the left mouse button in the window and then click the right mouse button. All IE windows will the be opened in the same place and size as before. PREVIEW WINDOW: By selecting PREVIEW from the IE menus, a preview window is opened. This window displays the icon as it will appear on the workbench screen. By clicking the left mouse button in this window, the icon render images change simulating the action of selecting the icon. INFO EDIT WINDOW: By selecting EDIT INFO from the IE menus, a info-editing window is opened. This window allows you to change the icon type, icon render, tool types, default tool and size of opened window amongst other things. CHANGING THE BITMAP: By clicking the left mouse button in the bitmap display on the left side of the main window, the selected pixel is changed to the selected colour. By holding down the left mouse button and dragging the pointer you can continuously draw in the bitmap. When the Flood Fill gadget is on, the action of clicking the left mouse button will change the area colour under the pointer to the selected colour. It probably is a good idea to save your icon BEFORE doing a flood fill in case the area you selected wasn't properly bounded and the flood fill does more than you think. Only horizontal and vertical connections are checked for flood fill (diagonals are ignored). DON'T FORGET TO TURN OFF THE FLOOD FILL GADGET WHEN FINISHED!!! MOVING THE ICON BITMAP: By selecting the arrow gadgets, the icon image currently being displayed is moved 1 pixel within the bitmap editing display to allow for expanding the size of the icon. GENERATING C CODE: By selecting OUTPUT C CODE from the IE menus, the icon data is written to a file of your choice in the C language. One use of this is for your programs to generate their own icons. The following example shows how to write an icon to a file. This assumes you generated the C Code to a file called "c-code" and are generating the icon "test.info": #include #include #include #include #include "c-code"; extern struct IconBase *IconBase; void main() { IconBase = (struct IconBase *) OpenLibrary("icon.library", LIBRARY_VERSION); PutDiskObject("test", &Icon); CloseLibrary(IconBase); exit(); } You can also use the generated C Code for any-size, 2 bit-plane image. For example: you can draw the desired gadget pictures for your program using the IE editor, generate the C Code to a file and use the Image definitions that were generated for use in your program. FINAL NOTE: The rest of the program I think is quite self explanatory but if you require any help just contact me and I will help as much as I can. I really hope that this program is of use to you and if you like it give it to all of your friends. Best wishes and happy Iconing...