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Icon Mover 1.2
6/27/95
Integrated Graphics
312 Nevada St.
Northfield, MN 55057
E-mail: hansonr@stolaf.edu
INTRODUCTION
------------
Icon Mover 1.2, ICONMOVR.EXE, enables a user to transfer
standard Windows3.1 icon and icon-related device-independent
bitmaps (32x32, 16-color) from one application or group of
applications to another. Icon Mover finds ALL valid icon bitmaps
in any file or group of files, including ICO, BMP, EXE, DLL, VBX,
FRX files, and even GRP files (although this last has only been
checked on 16- and 156-color video devices; icons cannot in this version
be written to GRP files, only read from them). All icons are located,
even including those not known to Windows. All such bitmaps are
displayed graphically and moved by clicking and dragging of the mouse.
Alternatively, icons can be extracted into ICO files directly by
right-clicking on them. A 10-icon cache is preserved between
sessions.
CHANGES SINCE ICON MOVER 1.1
----------------------------
1. Multiple selects allowed so that several icon-bearing
files can be inspected and extracted from at once. (REGISTERED
VERSION ONLY)
2. OpenFile Box: Default extensions expanded to include *.* and *.GRP
3. SETUP and SETUP description improved. C:\WINDOWS\VER.DL still
must be renamed for successful installation if it exists.
INSTALLATION
------------
IcnMvr12.zip can be unzipped using PKUNZIP, PKUNZJR, or WINZIP.
If you do not have one of these programs, you can probably find
one on the site from which you got IcnMvr11.zip. In addition,
you will need VBRUN300.DLL, as this program was produced using
Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 for Windows.
1. Create a new temporary directory or choose one already on
your hard disk.
2. Move IcnMvr12.zip to this directory and unzip it there.
3. From the Windows file manager Run... thatdirectory\setup
If you get a STOP message that VER.DL_->C:\WINDOWS\VER.DL,
then look in your windows directory for VER.DL, rename it
something like VER.DL0, and repeat step 3.
You will be asked to enter a directory into which to install
Icon Mover (default is C:\iconmvr1). Installation should
complete in a few seconds.
4. Files in the temporary directory may be deleted.
RUNNING THE PROGRAM
-------------------
First designate a source file, either by clicking on "source:"
or by using the pull-down menu. Using CTRL or SHIFT with the mouse
you can designate more than one file, perhaps even the whole directory.
Similarly indicate the destination file.
To load the cache, simply double-click on either a source or
destination icon. Once the cache is full, the currently highlighted
cache icon will be replaced. (Clicking on a cached icon highlights it.)
To install a cached icon in the destination file, drag a cached
icon to the destination icon you wish to replace. The original
destination icon will be swapped into the cache as long as the
"Swap icon on install" checkbox is checked. If this box is not
checked, then the old destination icon will be discarded.
Alternatively, you can right-click on any icon to extract it to
an ICO file directly.
Icon Mover finds all valid icons in these files based on a bitmap
"header" of 12 bytes for *.GRP files and 20 bytes for other. Thus, there
is a very small chance that Icon Mover can CONCEIVABLY be
fooled into thinking that an icon exists when it really doesn't.
Use your own judgement:
If it doesn't look like an icon, including just plain blank,
DON'T REPLACE IT!!!
ICONMOVR.INI
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Icon Mover will establish an initialization file, ICONMOVR.INI, in
its home directory. It looks something like this:
[Files]
Cache=C:\WINDOWS\ICONCACHE.ICO
Source=C:\WINDOWS\PROGMAN.EXE
Destination=C:\VB\MYEXE.EXE
Save=C:\VB\TEMP.ICO
[Registration]
Name=Bob Hanson (hansonr@stolaf.edu)
SerialNumber=89403566
[Video]
ColorPlanes=4
Bits/Pixel=1
These items are fairly self-expanatory. You may wish to change the
cache file designation, but don't put any other already-
produced file, such as a DLL in there. It won't work.
IconMover also worked when ColorPlanes=8 and Bits/Pixel=1. This only
affects the operation of reading and caching *.GRP files. If you find
that your *.GRP files can't be read, send me your ICONMOVR.INI file
by E-mail and I will try to enhance IconMover to work for your's, too.
If you move ICONMOVR.EXE to a new home directory, be sure to move
ICONMOVR.INI with it.
SOFTWARE LIMITATIONS
--------------------
Limitations are to display only the first 1000 icons in source files
and only the first 1000 in destination files. Over 400 icons have been
successfully loaded at once. The number of files allowed as a group of
source files depends upon the length of their filenames. Approximately
300-400 files at once should be no problem.
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS
---------------------
Any computer capable of running Windows 3.1 should be adequate.
Since Icon Mover does not use sophisticated Windows API calls which
involve device-dependent bitmaps, it is not screen- or graphics-board
dependent in any known way. It has been tested on both 386 and 486
machines having from 4 to 16 Mb of RAM with 16-256 colors and running
Windows 3.1 or Windows For Workgroups 3.11.
REGISTRATION
------------
Icon Mover is fully functional shareware. It is fully
distributable only in the form of ICNMVRxx.ZIP. To remove the
startup registration screen, send US$20 or the equivalent to:
Integrated Graphics
312 Nevada St.
Northfield, MN 55057-2345
USA
Please provide your full E-mail address or regular mail
address in your request. A valid serial number will be sent
by mail or E-mail. Add $5 for a 3.5" floppy containing the
latest version.
A single-user license permits a licensed user to execute Icon Mover
only on a single computer. Licensed users may use the program
on different computers as long as there is no possibility of
it being used at one location while it is being used at
another, or on a network by more than one user at a time.
FEEDBACK
--------
Your feedback is greatly appreciated. If there is ANYTHING that you don't
like or anything that you would like to see, please E-mail it to me. I can
install a newer test version on ftp.stolaf.edu/pub/origami ususally within
a day or two.
Have fun!
Bob Hanson
Integrated Graphics
312 Nevada St.
Northfield, Minnesota 55057-2345
hansonr@stolaf.edu