VERSION TauIcons 1.5 WHAT IS TAUICONS ABOUT This archive is the second MagicWB style icon archive I've compiled. Those of you that got the first archive may notice that most of the icons here are the same. Well, they're not the same. Every icon hereis either new, or redone. Why? Well, seems like I used a bad background template in the first set, and the icons didn't fit too well with the original MagicWB icons. Here they are, with a better template, and sometimes a few changes in the actual image too. I've included some original MagicWB (by Martin Huttenloher) icons here, because I wasn't fully satisfied with them, and made some changes. I thought you might want to see if my modified versions are better. I think so. Basically, I animated the icons a bit. For example, in the HDToolBox icon in MagicWB 1.2 the read/write head of the hard drive image didn't move when you selected the icon. I made it move, and also animated the wrench... The MUI Prefs icon is a somewhat modified version of the one made by Thomas Baetzler. I made the wand look more 3D. COPYRIGHT AND OTHER LEGAL MUMBO JUMBO MagicWB is Copyright by Martin Huttenloher. See the MagicWB archive for it's licence. In this copyright notice, the term 'icon' refers not only to the Amiga Workbench *.info icon files, but also to the images the icons consist of. The icons here are Copyright 1993, 1994 by Osma Ahvenlampi, except for the TauIcons.doc/Contents/Changes icon, the drawer icon, and MultiView, HDToolBox and HDBackup icons, which are Copyright 1993 by Martin Huttenloher. You may not modify the icons for personal or public use or distribition without a prior written consent from the author, Osma Ahvenlampi. You may not use the icons, or the imagery of them, unchanged or not, on any other platfrom besides Amiga. These icons may be freely distributed via BBSs, InterNet/UseNet, software libraries such as Fred Fish's and Aminet CD-ROM, and other similar electronic channels, as long as the archive is not modified, either by adding, removing, or modifying files in it. Disk magazines and services that charge extra for file transfers may not distribute TauIcons. If you wish to include one or several of the icons in this archive with other software, contact the author, Osma Ahvenlampi, for the terms of distribution. By using these icons, you accept the full responsibility for any damage or loss that may occur through their use. The author can not be held responsible. NONE of the icons may be used on any machine which is used for research, development, construction, testing or production of weapons or other military applications. This includes any machine used for training persons for any of the above mentioned purposes. IMPORTANT These icons are Giftware. If you like these icons and use them often, consider sending some gift to the author. I suggest a copy of your own program, a donation of 5-10 USD, or an A4000 :). Even if you feel the icons are not worth any donation, contact me. I want to hear what you think of them. I'm happy to receive email considering them, regardless of whether it says they're nice, or they suck. If you happen to think they suck, please try to tell me why you think so, I might be able to do something about it. If you use some program that does not have a goodlooking MagicWB icon, contact me, I might make one if I have the time to do it. If you are an author yourself, and would like to have me make an icon for your program, I'd be glad to do it for a copy of the program. The time limitation applies here too, however, so I might not be able to help you. INSTALLATION Do not copy these icons over the icons on your Workbench. The icons do not contain tooltypes, so by copying them you would lose all the setup information contained in the icon. For replacing the icon images, but leaving tooltypes and position information intact, I use ICONtrol by Stefan Winterstein, found on Fish disk 603. If you don't have it, get it. I recommend you to install these icons in the following way: NOTE: This method requires you to have a certain amount of knowledge of how to do things in the AmigaShell. If you don't know how to use AmigaShell, or some other command line interface shell for Amiga, please ask someone who does to make the installation for you. Unfortunately this installation can not be automated, like the MagicWB installation, as the location of the programs this archive provides icons for can and probably is different on most systems. 1) Get ICONtrol, it is on Fish disk 603. The ftp site ftp.funet.fi has all the Fish disks, in the directory /pub/amiga/fish. You can use any other program that can change the icon image, and leave the icon otherwise intact, but then you will have to modify the installation accordingly. Note that using the command ICONtrol in the Shell may result in running of the program SYS:Prefs/IControl. To avoid this, either rename ICONtrol so something else, or always provide also the path, for example C:ICONtrol. 2) CD to the TauIcons directory. 3) Give the command List ALL FILES LFORMAT "ICONtrol %n GETIMAGE %p%n" >T:InstallScript 4) Using your favorite text editor, edit the file T:InstallScript so that the lines contain the path to the programs on your system. For example, if you use Spliner as your screenblanker, you would probably change the line ICONtrol Spliner.info GETIMAGE WBStartup/Spliner.info to ICONtrol SYS:WBStartup/Spliner.info GETIMAGE WBStartup/Spliner.info At this point, you should also remove the lines containing a command to change an icon of a program you do not have on your system. Use your imagination. For example, if you don't have a program called Lens, but on the other have a program called MKS_Lens, by all means use the Lens.info for MKS_Lens. 5) Save the edited file, and go back to Shell. Give this command: Execute T:InstallScript 6) If the script executes without errors, you should now have TauIcons installed on your Workbench. Enjoy! AUTHORS ADDRESS I can be reached through email at: oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi If you IRC, stop by at #amiga and say hi to me. My nick there is Tau. If for some reason you can not use any electronic channels, my snailmail address is, at least for the time being: Osma Ahvenlampi Rekipellontie 2 F 55 SF-00940 Helsinki FINLAND