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COPYRIGHT
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Lost_Icon is Copyright (©)Rod MacLean 1995. I give permission to copy this
program and any other files e.g. readme files et.c. as long as YOU agree
not to make any money from this product. You can charge a minimal copying
fee as long as the total cost is not more than twice the price of a blank
disk and a stamp. (Currently that would be about £1, £1.10 or so.) Lost_Icon
can go on CD-rom collections as long as they are not more expensive than a
(cheapish) CD-rom game would be (£25-30 at the time of writing).
If you want Lost_Icon for a magazine coverdisk then you'll have to arrange
terms with me (Probably just that I get a mention in your mag).
If you make money from this then you are I swine!! I haven't made any and I
wrote it!
There is no shareware fee. If you've got Lost_Icon you can use it for free -
it's a gift from me to you! If you want to send me a gift in exchange then
you can. I will not be complaining if you do!
DISCLAIMER
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If your computer decides that it's time to die and you're running my program
then I want nothing to do with it... it shouldn't happen though!
WHO IS IT FOR & WHY
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Right, that's the disclaimer out of the way!
You can do what you want with this but it's intended really for people with
loads of mem.
You're doing a batch operation on ADPro, Rendering in Imagine or whatever
and in the meantime you decide to mess about on the workbench screen.
You change your prefs and presto! All of your carefully laid out and
'snapshot' icons are in the top left hand corner of the screen!
Arrgh! What do you do? You left out hundreds of utils icons or liked the ones
did leave out how you left them and not where they now are.
It's either unbearable trying to find the one you want (or you're fussy) and
you can't reboot (because Imagine is still only 4.2% rendered), what do you
do? You run "lost_icon"!
WHAT DOES IT DO?
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To put it simply, what this program does is tell WB to bloody well put your
icons where they were!
It does this by reading in the icon... then writing it out again, fooling
WB into thinking that the icon is somehow different...
WB says "Aha! I'll just find out where that should be...."
Where should it be?
Where it was last snapshot.
Of course, this means that the disk the file is on has to be write enabled
but that's a small price to pay. (It's probably on your hard-disk)
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO RUN THIS?
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1, An Amiga. Hmm... Hands up who hasn't got one and is reading this...
2, Reqtools Library...
(ReqTools is copyright Nico Francois and is absolutely wonderful)
3, WB 2 or better... (sorry 1.2 & 1.3 owners, you can't have AppWindows,
upgrade soon, please, it's so much better!)
4, It will probably be of most use to hard-drive owners and people who
have enough memory to do lots of things at once.
5, People who are using muFS... Set the U protection bit and set the owner
of Lost_Icon to be 'root'.
THANK-YOUs
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1, Nico Francois, he wrote reqtools.library (Which you need to run Lost_Icon)
2, Jonas Petersson & Absolut Software, they wrote UPD (Which is included)
3, Jan van den Baard, Jaba Development. I use GadToolsBox to design my user
interface now. (A lot of time saved!).
4, My Mum, she gave birth to me.
CAVEATS
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Of course, if a disk (or any other file for that matter) has NO icon, or the
icon is read only, then 'lost icon' can only twiddle it's thumbs.
BUGS
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None that I know of... Of course if there are I'd love to know about it.
AUTHOR
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If you want to send me money, games, toys, letterbombs et.c. Then try the
following addresses.
At the moment there is Email address so contact the author by either
^^
Snail mail E-Mail
Rod MacLean ceerm@cee.hw.ac.uk
26 Fleming Way,
Burntisland, Put the 'subject' field as
Fife, Lost_Icon-3.5
Scotland.
KY3 9HJ
Any hints as to what I've done wrong or could to better would be appreciated!
HISTORY
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<<<<SNIPPPPP! - All prior versions of Lost_Icon were crap!!>>>>
Feb ?? 95 - 1.xx Original program, it was rotten and buggy.
Mar 17 95 - 2.xx I rewrote the code completely.. and accidentally
deleted it! ARRRGH!
Aug 01 95 - 3.1 Believe it or not, i forgot all about Lost_Icon until
today. I just gave Lost_Icon a *real* user interface
and help messages et.c. Lost_Icon now also has sound
(via UpD). See the file Read.Me.Upd
Aug 11 95 - 3.2 A problem in 3.1 meant that Lost_Icon couldn't put
drawers back where they belonged. I've just sorted
this out.
Aug 15 95 - 3.3 The program now complains a bit more if it can't find
the libraries it needs. The code is easier to follow
and the right error messages appear at the right times!
Sep 12 95 - 3.4 The little message is now a bit better at finding the
middle of the dropbox. The code is now a bit neater.
(but not much!)
Dec 29 95 - 3.5 New sound added (wow!). I used the newest version of
GadToolsBox on Aminet (2.0c) to generate my windows...
Hopefully now they will be font sized for everyone
(Although I might just recompile with topaz/8 before
uploading)
To Do... clean up the code 8^)
write something useful :)