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January 19, 1992
<< IconToolsII >>
by Richard Mazzarisi
written in Jforth Professional 2.0 by Delta Research
Introduction:
These programs are two tools for managing icons under the
Workbench. The package consists of four programs, namely FloatIcon,
ReplaceTool, SwapColors and ReplaceImage. (FloatIcon and
ReplaceImage are updates from the original set.) They have been done
before, but I have never seen such tools that worked totally as an
Workbench based operation or allowed you to manipulate many icons in
one operation. So I decided to write them.
They are self documenting; just double click the icon to see the
instructions.
These programs not public domain but are freely distributable as
long as they are distributed with this notice and only a nominal fee
is charged for the disks to cover the cost of distribution. They may
be included in Fred Fish's collection and in Delta Research's
JGoodies disks.
NOTE: The author assumes no responsibility for any damages
resulting from the use of these programs.
ReplaceTool 2.04:
ReplaceTool allows you to change the default tool of any number
of project icons all at once. This is useful when installing a
program and some projects created by it onto a disk which will have a
different path from that of the distribution disk. Usually double
clicking the project icon would result in a program not found error.
Then you had to type the new path into each icon using "info" from
the Workbench menu, one by one! Now instead you can just click on
ReplaceTool and shift click on all the project icons and the tool to
be used. That tool's path and name will be placed in the DefaultTool
slot of the icon.
And how about all those README files whose icons all have some text
file browser in a subdirectory of the original disk as their default tool;
less has no icon, you say. Well, there is a second way to use ReplaceTool.
If you shift click ONLY on project icons, ReplaceTool will open the ARP file
requester with which you can specify the tool and its path. The default
directory will be SYS:, and of course you may click the buttons and names to
get the path and tool you desire. Or you may type the path and name into the
string requesters. You may type ANY path or name into the requesters
regardless of what is shown in the window; so that a relative path is
possible such as "/" to use a tool one directory up from where the project
lives, ":<path>" to indicate the current disk, or blank it out entirely to
indicate the same directory. You just type the appropriate path into the
drawer string requester AFTER getting the correct file name to show in the
file string requester with the gadgets, or just type in both path and file
names. (With Workbench 2.0's ASL file requester you may get a 'Directory
Error' if the directory name doesn't directly relate to the directory shown
in the window. This may be safely ignored; the string typed in will be the
one used.)
If you are using Workbench 1.3 or earlier and want to use the
second option, you must have the arp.library (version 39 or greater)
installed in your LIBS: directory. For Workbench 2.0 the ASL
requester is used.
FloatIcon 1.05:
FloatIcon is a spinoff of Replacetool, basically it was practice
at accessing the icon info and writing it back. It simply lets you
make an icon free floating again after it has been "Snapshot". This
means that the Workbench will decide where it should be placed when a
drawer is opened rather than putting it at a fixed position.
Having the icons free floating seems to work better with Dave
Navas' JazzBench since it does a more intelligent job of icon
placement than the Workbench, so that the names don't overlap.
(AmigaDos 2.0 does a better job at this than 1.3)
To use it just shift click on all the icons that you want to
float after clicking first on SwapColors, double clicking on the last
one. This program is here only for Workbench 1.3 users since 2.0 has
a menu item to accomplish the same end.
SwapColors 1.01
SwapColors is used to reverse the colors 1 and 2 in the icons.
This is necessary for users of Workbench 2.0 to make icons which were
used under 1.3 look better under the new version. Only four color
icons are altered by SwapColors. If an icon has more than four
colors it will be skipped over with a notification of that fact. If
an icon has a separate image for the selected state, swapcolors will
do the color swap on both images.
This program is used in the same way as FloatIcon; just click on
SwapColors followed by shift clicking on all the icons that you wish
to change the colors on.
ReplaceImage 1.01
ReplaceImage will change the image of a number of icons to be
the same as the first one clicked. This can be used, for example, to
transform all your 1.3 drawer icons into the 2.0 style. This program
replaces only the gadget structure of an icon and will leave the
DefaultTool and ToolTypes as they were.
To use ReplaceImage you MUST shift click on the icon whose image
you want to use right after clicking on ReplaceImage, then shift
click on all the icons which are to receive this image, double
clicking on the last one.
JAZZBENCH USERS NOTE!!
Jazzbench 0.8 passes arguments in reverse order from Workbench,
so you MUST click on the icon whose image is to be used LAST!
Compiling the programs:
In order to recompile these programs you need the Jforth
Professional 2.0 Amiga developement package from Delta research.
Assign JARP: to the directory where the arp header file and support
file may be found. The other standard assigns for JForth are assumed
to be set. The asl_support file should be put into ju:. And you
will need the following include files in ji: libraries/asl.j,
utility/hooks.j and utility/tagitem.j:, and the asl_lib.fd file in
the JForth:fd.files drawer.
NOTE:
Under Workbench 1.3 the changes effected by these programs do
not take effect until the icons are reread from the disk. So it is
necessary to close the drawers involved and to reopen them before
using the modified icons. Under version 2.0 the changes take
effect immediately.
Richard Mazzarisi
891 Post St. #207
San Francisco, CA 94109
email:
rich@californium.cchem.berkeley.edu
rich@bloch.cchem.berkeley.edu
rmazz@hydrogen.cchem.berkeley.edu