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Documentation of Program IcoShow
Version 1.14
Date September, 28th 1992
Register at Harald Pitro
Hermann-Wuensche-Strasse 11
Germany - O - 8705 Ebersbach / Sachsen
Phone/Fax +49-3586-5186
CompuServe 100024, 2662
Registration for $35 (incl. shipping and printed documentation)
Table of Contents
1. Overview
2. System Requirements and Limits
3. Start and Command Line
4. INI file
4.1 Application [IcoShow]
4.2 Application [Groups]
5. Menu Commands
5.1 File Menu
5.2 Icons Menu
5.2.1 Copy / Move
5.2.2 Rename / Edit
5.2.3 Select
5.2.4 Exclude
5.3 Options Menu
5.3.1 Edit with ...
5.3.2 Repair Icons
5.3.3 Save Settings
5.3.4 Quick Delete
5.3.5 Quick Search
5.4 Window Menu
5.5 Help Menu
5.6 Properties Menu
6. Dialog Boxes
6.1 Open
6.2 Print Icons
6.3 Create Library
6.4 Select Icons
6.5 Exclude Icons
6.6 Edit with ...
6.7 Rename Icon
6.8 Select Window
6.9 Registration
6.10 Print Order Form
6.11 About IcoShow
7. Status Line
8. Hints for the use of IcoShow
9. Shareware Version
1. Overview
The amount of present icons for Windows requires a simple
management and the possibility to process icons from
management, to group them by anyone and to write them to
icon files or libraries.
IcoShow searches for icons and libraries with icons in
selected drives and/or directories (in subdirectories also
if wished) and shows the icons including their names. Each
directory including icons becomes a new window. After you
have started IcoShow you can add directories at any time.
You can copy or move icons from one window to another by
dragging them with the mouse. If you minimize a window,
all selected icons will be copied or moved with window
icon. If you wish to process only a part of the icons in
windows, you can select/exclude icons by pattern strings
that matches the icon names.
You can write the selected icons from one window or all
windows to a new library. In one library you can hold over
2,700 icons but if you write more than 1,200 icons to a
library this library can not be used in another icon
manager or program manager. You can exclude duplicates of
icons while writing them to a library.
You can choose an icon editor to process icons from
IcoShow directly. If the editor chosen is capable of
command line processing, the icon will be opened
automatically and presented for editing.
If you wish to install icons in program manager, you need
only to drag them from the IcoShow window to the window of
the program manager using the mouse.
Icons or all icons selected in a window can be deleted by
the DEL key (you cannot delete icons within libraries). If
you are an experienced user, you can delete them simply by
dragging them outside of screen. Please be careful,
IcoShow do not undelete icons!
Some older icon files contains bugs (the program manager
shows you a truncated icon image). IcoShow lets repair you
this bug.
You can print icons with any matrix, ink-jet or
laserprinter (postscript also). You may also print in
color if your printer can handle the output.
IcoShow writes the current status of the options and his
desktop in the file ICOSHOW.INI.
In a status line you can see the most important options
and some informations about the processed icons.
If you need help, press F1 at any time. IcoShow will try
to find the proper help for you.
2. System Requirements and Limits
IcoShow will run under Windows 3.0 and 3.1 in standard
mode as well as in enhanced mode. It will not run in real
mode because there is not enough heap space.
IcoShow shows the proper image for the display from each
icon. If you have a monochrome card, you will not see
icons that only contain color images. But IcoShow
processes the icon files with all images!
The amount of icons you can process depentend on the
amount of displayed windows. IcoShow can display and
process up to 16,384 icons.
Look at the dialog box "About IcoShow" (Help Menu) to see
the use of heap and resources. Check these informations.
If you see that "Free Heap" is very small, close windows
to free local heap. An overflow in local heap stops
IcoShow immediately.
If there are no more windows or dialog boxes displayed,
you have too many opened windows.
IcoShow supports libraries of types DLL/NIL/ICL. IcoShow
will warn you if you try to write more than 1,200 icons
into a library. You can save over 2,700 icons within one
library but this library will not be applicable by other
icon managers (program manager also).
3. Start and Command Line
You will usually start IcoShow without command line
arguments. If you want to use command line processing, the
syntax is:
ICOSHOW [-s] [Directory ...]
-s Include subdirectories (you can type /s for -s).
-d Don't use BWCC.DLL
Directory Drive and path including icons possibly.
Example : ICOSHOW -s c: d:
searches for icons the drives 'c' und 'd', including
all subdirectories, and shows all directories with icons.
Hint: If you start IcoShow with command line arguments,
the saved desktop in INI file will be ignored
(see also below).
4. INI file
IcoShow saves an INI file with the status of the options
and the last desktop. So you can continue with the same
environment at the next session. The key names must follow
the application names [IcoShow] and [Groups]. Upper and
lower case is the same.
4.1 Application [IcoShow]
Example :
Application/Key Default
[IcoShow]
SaveSettings=1 (0)
SubDir=On (Off)
Libraries=Exe,Dll,Nil,Icl (,,)
SearchNames=Off (On)
LibName=c:\win\icons.dll (-)
Run=imagedit (-)
Repair=On (Off)
Tool=Move (Copy)
Rename=On (Off)
QuickDelete=On (Off)
QuickSearch=On (On)
Select=A* (-)
Exclude=AB* (-)
Minimize=On (Off)
Arrange=Tile (Cascade)
BackColor=191,191,191 (-)
Window=0 0 640 480 3 (-)
Registered=Gustav Hackendahl (-)
Password=0815 (-)
Enclosed in brackets are the default values if IcoShow
does not find an INI file. You can change the settings
while IcoShow is running (exception: "BackColor").
Explanation of the example atop:
"SaveSettings=1" IcoShow will save the settings of the
options and his desktop on exit.
"SubDir=On" If you add directories and/or drives,
IcoShow will search for icons in
subdirectories also.
"Libraries=Exe,Dll,Nil,Icl" IcoShow searches for icons in
libraries also. If IcoShow searches for
ICO files only, this key reads
"Libraries=,,,".
"SearchNames=Off" Some libraries contain names for the
including icons. If this statement is
"On", IcoShow will search for the
names. If this option is "Off" or if
icons have no names, IcoShow will use
the library name for the including
icons.
"LibName=c:\win\icons.dll" This statement contains the
full name of the last written library
and will be the default name for the
next.
"Run=imagedit" If the option "Rename" is "Off", a
double click with the mouse will start
the icon editor chosen here (or in
Option Menu). IcoShow appends the full
icon name and starts the program.
"Repair=On" If this option is "On", IcoShow will
repair bugs in older icon files on
disk. Bugs in libraries will not be
repaired. IcoShow repairs bugs always
while running.
"Tool=Move" Icons will be moved by dragging them
with the mouse.
If "Tool=Copy", icons will be copied.
"Rename=On" If this option is "On", a double click
with the mouse will open a dialog box
to rename the current icon. If this
option is "Off", IcoShow will start the
icon editor selected (see upon).
"QuickDelete=On" If you press the Del key, the current
icon (or all icons in current window if
minimized) will be deleted. IcoShow
will prompts you to confirm that. If
you are an experienced user, you can
delete icons by dragging them outside
of screen. In this case IcoShow will
not warn you. Please be careful. Hold
this option "Off" until you are sure
you want to delete icons.
"QuickSearch=On" If this option is "On", you can find
icons by names quickly. Type simply a
string. IcoShow tries to find proper
icons in the current window. IcoShow
searches with each character you have
entered successively. If no proper icon
names have been found, the string will
be deleted.
You can see the current string in the
status line. Look at point 5.3.5 for
more details.
"Select=A*" Under this statement IcoShow reads the
current pattern used to select icons by
names for processing. The term A* in
the example causes to display only
icons which names start with "A" in all
windows. You can process only selected
icons (the term "*.*" processes all of
them)!
This entry is a readonly. You can
change the setting while IcoShow is
running but it will not be saved in the
INI file.
For more details about this pattern see
5.2.3.
"Exclude=AB*" Similar to the "Select" statement
IcoShow reads the current pattern used
to exclude icons by names from
processing. This example common used
with "Select=A*" displays icons which
names start with the letter "A" and
which names do not have the letter "B"
at second place.
This entry is a readonly. You can
change the setting while IcoShow is
running, but it will not be saved in
the INI file.
For more details about this pattern see
5.2.4.
"Minimize=On" This statement causes IcoShow to
display windows minimized on create.
"Arrange=Tile" IcoShow displays all not minimized
windows als "Tile". "Arrange=Cascade"
shows the windows as "Cascade".
"BackColor=191,191,191" This statement contains the
background color for the displayed
icons. If it's missing, the background
will be the same as the window
background.
You can not change this setting while
IcoShow is running.
"Window=0 0 640 480 3" This statement contains the
position and the size of the frame
window:
position of the upper left corner (0,0)
size of the frame window (640x480)
style of frame window
1 - normal
2 - minimized
3 - maximized
"Registered=Gustav Hackendahl" Here stands your name.
"Password=0815" The password you get from author after
you register the program.
4.2 Application [Groups]
Example:
[Groups]
Group1=c:\windows3\icons 4
Window1=10 10 100 100
Group2=c:\windows3 Minimize 0
Window2=20 20 100 100
Group3=c:\windows3\system EXEDLLNILICL 0
Window3=30 30 100 100
Group4=c:\windows3\tools Active 0
Window4=40 40 100 100
For each line Groupi there must be a Windowi line. Key
words within the lines are separated with Space or Tab.
"Minimize" This window will be shown minimized.
"EXEDLLNILLICL" In this window will be included icons
from the library types Exe, Dll, Nil
and Icl. This key word is empty if only
icons from ICO files will be included.
"Active" This key word marks the current active
child window.
"0" The last value is the number of the
current icon in the window.
The statement "Windowi" contains the position and the size
of the "Groupi" window.
5. Menu Commands
5.1 File Menu
In the File Menu you can open directories to select the
icons existing there, print selected icons, create a new
icon library, refresh a directory window or exit IcoShow.
Open If you choose this menu command, a dialog
box will open to allow you to browse for
the directory and/or drive wanted and to
check whether subdirectories and/or icon
libraries (Exe/Dll/Nil/Icl) are to be
included and whether IcoShow is to look
for and display icon names in some
libraries.
Hint : If the directory chosen does not
exist, you will be prompted to
allow IcoShow create it.
Print Icons This command prints the selected icons in
the current window on selected paper with
any matrix, ink-jet or laser printer. You
may also print in color if your printer
can handle the output. The number of
printed icons per sheet depends on the
printer's resolution.
The description of the dialog box you
find at chapter 6.
Create Library Transfers the selected icons from either
the current window or all windows into a
library. Supported library types are
DLL/NIL/ICL.
You can put more than 2,700 icons into
such a library. But if you intent to use
the library later with Window's program
manager or with some other icon manager,
you should not include more than 1,200
icons. IcoShow will issue a warning.
For more details see chapter 6.
Refresh Directory Choose this option from System Menu if
you wish to read icons and libraries from
current directory again. Use this if you
have changed the content of the directory
with a file manager while IcoShow is
running.
Exit IcoShow Use Hotkeys Alt-F4 to exit IcoShow
directly.
If the option Save Settings (Options
Menu) has been selected, IcoShow will
save all settings including desktop in
ICOSHOW.INI within the directory of
IcoShow.Exe.
5.2 Icons Menu
Use this menu to determine the function of the left mouse
button and to select the icons to be used. All commands
under this menu are ineffectual if you drag an icon to the
program manager!
5.2.1 Copy / Move
Choose here if you want to copy or to move icons with the
mouse.
Copy You can drag specific icons or icons
symbolizing a minimized window containing
icons to a destination window with the
mouse. Place cursor on icon, press down
the left mouse button, then drag the icon
to its destination and release the mouse
button.
If this option is checked, the icon(s)
will be copied, not moved.
Move You can drag specific icons or icons
symbolizing a minimized window containing
icons to a destination window with the
mouse. Place cursor on icon, press down
the left mouse button, then drag the icon
to its destination and release the mouse
button.
If this option is checked, the icon(s)
will be moved, not copied. This means
that the icon files in the source window
will be deleted after copying. Icons from
libraries (Exe/Dll/Nil/Icl) will not be
deleted, but copied.
If the source window is empty after
moving icons, you will be prompted for
deletion of the directory.
Hint : Icons with identical names in the
source and destination
directories will not be deleted
because they will not be moved.
5.2.2 Rename / Edit
You can also choose the processing of the current icon in
this menu:
Rename If this option is checked, you can rename
icons by a double clicking them with the
mouse or by pushing the Return key. Icons
cannot be renamed and moved at the same
time.
If you wish to sort the icons in the
current window after the renaming is
done, check the sort button.
You cannot rename icons in libraries.
Edit If this option is checked, a double click
with the mouse or the Enter key will run
the command under "Edit with..." in
Options Menu for the icon selected. If
the editor chosen is capable of command
line processing, the icon will be opened
and displayed for further processing. If
not, you will still have to open the icon
you wish to alter.
IcoShow displays the current choose within the status
line.
5.2.3 Select
If you check this command, a dialog box will be presented
for you to enter a pattern to select icons from the
contents of the Current Window to be displayed exclusively
(and for all other windows also). The pattern "A*" lets
display you and process only icons which names start with
the letter "A".
The following characters may be used in the pattern
string:
Letter/digit/./_ normal characters, upper and lower case
are not distinguished
? any character
* a number of any characters
[] a class of characters
^ negates the class of characters in []
- a range of characters in []
Examples for pattern:
A* all icons, starting with the letter A
as ALPHA.ICO
A same
A[ABCDE] all icons starting with the letter A
followed by one of the letters A, B, C,
D or E
A[A-E] same
A[^F-Z] also the same if only letters possible
Please watch out for interactions between Select and
Exclude.
5.2.4 Exclude
If you check this command, a dialog box will be presented
for you to enter a pattern to exclude icons from the
displayed contents of the Current Window (and for all
other windows also). The pattern "A*" lets display you and
process only icons which names do not start with the
letter "A".
The following characters may be used in the pattern
string:
Letter/digit/./_ normal characters, upper and lower case
are not distinguished
? any character
* a number of any characters
[] a class of characters
^ negates the class of characters in []
- a range of characters in []
Examples for pattern:
A* all icons, starting with the letter A
as ALPHA.ICO
A same
A[ABCDE] all icons starting with the letter A
followed by one of the letters A, B, C,
D or E
A[A-E] same
A[^F-Z] also the same if only letters possible
Please watch out for interactions between Select and
Exclude.
5.3 Options Menu
Set options for IcoShow.
5.3.1 Edit with ...
Here you can enter a command line to process a chosen
icon. Type the complete command line to start the icon
editor of your choice without the icon's name. That will
be added when you double click the mouse or press the
Return key and if the Edit option in Icons Menu is
checked.
If the editor chosen is capable of command line
processing, the icon will be opened and presented for
editing automatically. If not, only the program will be
started and you will have to open manually the icon to be
edited. Further procedure depends upon the editor itself.
Do not forget to save the changes made!
If the icon has been changed by the selected program, it
will be reloaded and redisplayed on exit.
Hint : Do not use programs changing
file structures on disks.
5.3.2 Repair Icons
Older icon files may contain bugs (the icon's upper border
is truncated). You can have repaired these icon files by
checking this option. Bugs in libraries will not be
removed.
IcoShow will correct this bug always while running.
5.3.3 Save Settings
If you check this option, IcoShow saves the current
settings of all options and the desktop on exit in the
file ICOSHOW.INI in the IcoShow directory. If missing, it
will be created by IcoShow automatically.
Use Alt-Shift-F4 to save all settings including desktop
while IcoShow is running (in this case the option "Save
Settings" should not be checked).
Hint : A change of this option will always
be saved to the INI file on exit.
5.3.4 Quick Delete
You normally delete icons with the Del key. After pressing
this key you will be prompted if you really wish to delete
the icon.
If you want to delete icons fast however, check this
option. You can then delete icons simply by dragging them
out of the screen. You will not be prompted, the icon or
all icons selected in the current window will be deleted!
5.3.5 Quick Search
You can find an icon by using the scroll bar or by cursor
keys. If you want to find an icon quickly by name, check
this option. You may then simply type a name to find
matching icons. IcoShow will locate these and display
successively. If no icons answer to the search, string
will be deleted automatically. Otherwise you will have to
delete it yourself.
You can use the following characters:
Letters/digits/./_ normal characters
? stands for any single character
* stands for any number of characters
Space deletes the string
Backspace deletes the last character in the
string
You can see the current entered string in the status line.
5.4 Window Menu
Use this menu to arrange and size windows within IcoShow.
Cascade If you activate this option, all opened
windows within IcoShow will be shown as a
Cascade.
Hotkey: Shift-F5
Tile If you activate this option, all opened
windows within IcoShow will be tiled. You
can see all windows displayed now.
Hotkey: Shift-F4
Minimize Windows If you choose this command, all windows
within IcoShow will be minimized and
arranged in alphabetic order at the
bottom of the IcoShow desktop. If you
have created many windows, use this
command and the command Maximize Windows
to rearrange all windows.
If this option is activated, new
directories, respectively windows, will
be shown minimized.
Maximize Windows If you choose this command, all minimized
windows will be shown in default size and
arranged in alphabetic order according to
the tile or cascade option.
Select Window Within the following dialog box you can
choose a window quickly and activate it.
Close All Use this command to close all open
windows at once. Upon closing IcoShow
tries to release a maximum of heap space
and resources.
Arrange Icons Choose this command to arrange all
minimized windows at the bottom of the
IcoShow desktop according to Windows'
settings. The windows will not be sorted
by name.
5.5 Help Menu
Look here for informations about registration, ordering
and the present use of heap and resources. For more
details about the dialog boxes see chapter 6.
Contents Choose this menu command for the contents
of the help index. If you need help at
any place type the F1 key. IcoShow will
try to find the proper help for you.
How to use help At this place you get the general Windows
help.
Registration The author's hints for registering and
how to contact him.
Print Order Form If you wish to order a license for
IcoShow, you can fill in the form online
and print it from here. Switch on your
printer!
After printing the form is not saved to
disk. After you pressed the OK button you
will have to fill it in anew to print
another copy.
Set Register Information After you register the program,
you can input your name and the received
password in the following dialog box. If
the password contains spaces, please type
the spaces too.
IcoShow writes the informations into INI
file and stores them under "Registered="
and "Password=". The password will not be
checked to this time!
About IcoShow Use this to display informations on
copyright and the present use of heap and
resources.
5.6 Properties Menu
If you click on an icon with the right mouse button,
IcoShow displays the properties Menu. In this menu you can
select another image if the icon has more than one. You
can select the properties available for this icon, such as
exclude, delete, edit or rename. Only the possible
Properties will be displayed. In example the property
"rename" is not available if you click on an icon from a
library.
Last but not least you can change the options to determine
the function of the left mouse button.
IcoShow tries to position the proper image near the
current icon. Click on the image which you wish to use for
further processing. Note that you can display only one
image from an icon at any time. If IcoShow copies to icon
files, it will be copied all images. You can choose to
write all images if you write icons into a library.
Exlude Icon Choose this option if you wish to exclude
the current icon from further processing.
You can select this icon again if you
change the criteria for selecting and/or
excluding icons (Select/Exclude within
Icons MenuIconMenu) or if you choose the
menu point Refresh from File Menu!
Delete Icon Choose this option if you wish to delete
icons from disk too. You cannot delete
icons from libraries. These will be
deleted from display only.
Rename Icon If you choose this option, you will be
prompted for a new name of the icon. You
cannot rename icons from libraries
directly, however.
Check the "Sort" box if you wish to sort
the display in the current window after
renaming. The icon will be displayed then
at its proper place within the window
according to its new name.
Edit Icon If you choose this option, IcoShow will
run the program from "Edit with".
Copy You can drag specific icons or icons
symbolizing a minimized window containing
icons to a destination window with the
mouse. Place cursor on icon, press down
the left mouse button, then drag the icon
to its destination and release the mouse
button.
If this option is checked, the icon(s)
will be copied, not moved.
Move You can drag specific icons or icons
symbolizing a minimized window containing
icons to a destination window with the
mouse. Place cursor on icon, press down
the left mouse button, then drag the icon
to its destination and release the mouse
button.
If this option is checked, the icon(s)
will be moved, not copied. This means
that the icon files in the source window
will be deleted after copying. Icons from
libraries (Exe/Dll/Nil/Icl) will not be
deleted, but copied.
If the source window is empty after
moving icons, you will be prompted for
deletion of the directory.
Hint : Icons with identical names in the
source and destination
directories will not be deleted
because they will not be moved.
Rename If this option is checked, you can rename
icons by a double clicking them with the
mouse or by pushing the Return key. Icons
cannot be renamed and moved at the same
time.
If you wish to sort the icons in the
current window after the renaming is
done, check the sort button.
You cannot rename icons in libraries.
Edit If this option is checked, a double click
with the mouse or the Enter key will run
the command under "Edit with..." in
Options Menu for the icon selected. If
the editor chosen is capable of command
line processing, the icon will be opened
and displayed for further processing. If
not, you will still have to open the icon
you wish to alter.
6. Dialog Boxes
6.1 Open
Add a new window (or new windows) with the icons existing
in a given directory. The dialog box allows you to browse
for the directory wanted and to check whether
subdirectories and/or icon libraries (...) are to be
included and whether IcoShow is to look for and display
icon names found in some libraries.
Drives and Directories Browse for the name of a drive
and/or directory or enter it in the list
box below. If you click the OK button or
press the Return key, processing of the
directory will start.
Subdirectories Select this option if you wish to look
for icons in subdirectories of the main
directory or drive chosen, too. Each
directory containing icons will be shown
as a separate window.
Libraries Check this box if you want to search for
icons included in library files, too. You
may check all types of libraries
supported (Exe/Dll/Nil/Icl) or select
specific ones.
Search for Names Many icon libraries include names for the
icons. If you wish to display those names
along with the icons, check this box.
If this option has not been checked or if
there are no names assigned to the icons,
the library's name is used, suffixed by a
running number.
6.2 Print Icons
This dialog box will open after you have issued the Print
Icons command in the File Menu.
By checking the print names box you will have the names
assigned to the icons printed along with the design
itself.
If printer initialisation is succesful, the next dialog box
will be displayed. Press the Cancel button if you wish to
cancel the printing.
6.3 Create Library
In this dialog box you can set the options to create a
library. If the library already exists, you will be
prompted to delete it before you go on.
IcoShow can put over 2,700 icons (images) in a single icon
library. But if you want to use the library later with the
program manager, you should not include more than 1,200
icons (images). IcoShow will issue a warning.
Only the icons selected will be written to the library.
Please check Select/Exclude in Icons Menu to see if your
choice corresponds with your intentions.
Library Name Enter the name of the library in this
field or select it from the list box
below.
Default name for the library is ICONS.DLL.
IcoShow will write the last name used to
the INI file if you have selected "Save
Settings" in the Option Menu.
Library Type Choose the type of library you wish to
create here. Supported are DLL, NIL and
ICL files.
Current Only Check this box if you wish to write only
the icons in the current window.
Selected Only Check this box if you wish to write only
the icons in the windows selected. You can
select these windows in the "Select Window
Dialog Box" from Window Menu.
All Windows Check this box if you wish to write all
the icons selected from all windows.
Sort Check this box to write all icons selected
in alphabetic order. If this box is not
checked, the icons will be written
successively.
IcoShow sorts the pathnames of the windows
in alphabetic order, ascend if windows are
minimized and descend if windows are
maximized or normally shown (see also
"Minimize Windows" and "Maximize Windows"
under Window Menu).
Write Names with Icons Check this box to write icons to
the library including their names. If
icons have no names, IcoShow will build
names using up to 5 characters from the
library's name and a 3 character index
including only letters and digits (46656
variants).
Exclude Duplicates Check this box to instruct IcoShow to
compare all icons and to exclude
duplicates from all the icons to be
written to the library.
You can use this possibility to eliminate
duplicate icons from your directory even
if you want them as .ICO-files. Write all
icons to a library while this box is
checked, delete icon files and extract
them from the library again.
Write all Images Some icons include more than one image for
displays with different numbers of colors.
Normally the image selected for your
display will be written to the library. If
this box is checked, IcoShow will write
all images to the library. That will
minimize the number of stored icons!
If you overwrite an old library, you need disk space for
both the old and the new version.
6.4 Select Icons
In this dialog box you can enter the pattern used to
select icons for processing. For more details about
pattern see chapter 5.
6.5 Exclude Icons
In this dialog box you can enter the pattern used to
exclude icons from processing. For more details about
pattern see chapter 5.
Please watch out for interactions between Select and
Exclude. You can write patterns in the INI file manually
to select/exclude icons while IcoShow is starting. All
patterns you have entered while IcoShow is running will
not be written to INI file!
6.6 Edit with ...
In this dialog box you can enter the command line used to
start icon processing, usually the complet path to start
the icon editor of your choice. The name of the icon to be
edited will be added when the command is issued, so the
editor will open with the icon already displayed. This
will work only if the editor is capable of command line
processing.
6.7 Rename Icon
In this dialog box you can enter a new name for the
selected icon. You cannot rename icons from libraries
directly, however.
Sort Check the "Sort" box if you wish to sort
the display in the current window after
renaming. The icon will be displayed then
at its proper place within the window
according to its new name.
6.8 Select Window
This dialog box will help you to select a window quickly
or to calculate the number of icons which you wish to
write to a library. Use the Shift key to select more than
one window.
If only one window is highlighted this window will be
activated if you press the Enter key or click the OK
button.
6.9 Registration
You will get familiar with this dialog box if you have not
registered by December 31st, 1992.
6.10 Print Order Form
In this dialog box you may fill in the text for the order
form. Printing starts after the print button was clicked.
After printing the form is not saved to disk. After you
pressed the OK button you will have to fill it in anew to
print another copy.
If you are not from Germany and you pay using check, I
must add the price to cash the check.
If you fill in the EMail address (or the network path), I
will send you a message after I have a new version on
CompuServe.
Please use payment per VISA if you are not from Germany.
If you decide to do so, IcoShow displays the following
dialog box to prompt you for the Card Number and the
Release Date:
Enter the correct Card Number and the Release Date of your
VISA Card. IcoShow checks your entries and will not allow
you to enter incorrect statements.
If you wish to change a correct credit card number, you
must first close the dialog box "Print Order Form" with
the OK button and open it again.
6.11 About IcoShow
Here are copyright messages and some informations on heap
and resources used.
"Free Heap" shows you the minimum of local and global
heap. That will be sure the minimum of the
local heap.
"Free Resources" shows you the minimum of the local
heap from User and GDI.
"Processed Icons" shows you the amount of icons read
overall.
Check these informations. If you see that "Free Heap" is
very small, close windows to free local heap. An overflow
in local heap stops IcoShow immediately.
If there are no more windows or dialog boxes displayed,
you have too many opened windows.
7. Status Line
The standard status line offers the following informations:
Status of the Status of Number of Number of
menu commands the menu icons read icons in
Copy / Move command and selected current
within the Rename / and the window.
Icons Menu. Edit within number of
the Icons opened
Menu. windows.
If the option "QuickSearch" in Icons Menu is checked and
you have entered a search string, the status line offers
the following informations:
Status of the Status of Number of Entered
menu commands the menu icons read Substring.
Copy / Move command and selected
within the Rename / and the
Icons Menu. Edit within number of
the Icons opened
Menu. windows.
8. Hints for the use of IcoShow
Here are some hints about the (more) effective use of
IcoShow:
1. If you install ICO files into program manager,
create a directory where you save this files
together. Than you can see all at once.
2. If you plan to copy or move many icons, create
a temporary directory and copy the icons there. This
does not take a long time and you have been saved
your icons if you make a mistake. If you are ready,
delete the directory with the icons.
3. Be careful to install icons to program manager
if there are bad program icons especially in windows
3.0. Because errors in this case will not reported
from IcoShow but from the program manager Windows
could hang. If that happened, try to use Alt-ESC to
change to the task manager and then back to IcoShow.
4. If you install icons while Norton Desktop (version
1.0) is running, install only icon files. Because
there is a bug in Norton's task manager the heap
space will be lost if you install icons from a dll.
5. If you wish to use another background color for
your icons, then load control panel and select the
color. Then write the RGB values into the INI file
of IcoShow under BackColor (see upon).
6. Icons or all icons selected in a window can be
deleted by the DEL key (you cannot delete icons
within libraries). If you are an experienced user,
you can delete them simple by dragging them outside
of screen. Choose "QuickDelete" from Options Mene to
do so. Please be careful because IcoShow does not
undelete icons!
7. Please note the difference between
"QuickSearch" and the options "Select" and
"Exclude". QuickSearch navigates only to a proper
symbol in current window while Select/Exclude
chooses the icons for display and process in all
windows.
8. If you get the message "Overflow in
local/global heap", close windows or work in
enhanced mode.
If you get the message "No more space for
resources", IcoShow will not exit rather than icons
will be displayed as question marks. Minimize
windows to free resources.
9. Shareware Version
You can use the not registered version of IcoShow until
December, 31st 1992 for evaluation. Please do not patch
the program and especially do not change my name.
If you register the program for $35, I will send you a
printed documentation.
If you need support, write me a letter to my address below
or send me a fax or mail. I will try to help you anyway.
My address : Harald Pitro
Hermann-Wuensche-Strasse 11
Germany - O - 8705 Ebersbach / Sachsen
Mail to: Phone/Fax +49-3586-5186
CompuServe 100024, 2662
Ebersbach September, 28th 1992
Harald Pitro
