Icon Toolbox

[AMIGASYSTEM]

No on Amiga OS3 this does not happen, the two icons are different and distinct, and cannot beinterchanged, I will do further testing with all OS3 !

[AMIGASYSTEM]

That it isn't the same behaviour as on classic AmigaOS is imho not necessarily a bug, just other behavour.

In my opinion it is not correct, an icon should maintain its state always in any position !

[miker1264]

That it isn't the same behaviour as on classic AmigaOS is imho not necessarily a bug, just other behavour.

In my opinion it is not correct, in the Def icons, I purposely used disk icons, saved as folder, otherwise I had problems, as soon as I remember I write it down

Maybe start another Topic about Icon Types. 

[miker1264]

As far as Icon Toolbox the next Icon App is Icon press.

It "presses" two images together to form an icon. It supports Drag-n-drop & uses the same basic layout as IconClone.

It has two display areas, left & right. But the middle buttons have moved to the bottom. It only supports Drag-n-drop. There are only two buttons: "Save ARGB" & "Save Icon".

It uses the basic layout of IconClone but it is more complicated as far as the code behind it. First we can drop either icons or images rather than just icons as before.

It can be divided into two main parts to finish writing it. The fist part is to drop icons or images & display the images. The second part is more difficult. It is about composing & saving icons which requires several new techniques including Datatype Conversion & Neuquant Color Quantizing. There are two main display functions & two main save functions. These are Display_Icon & Display_Image. Save_Icon & Save_Classic_Icon.

[miker1264]

This is the thread where I will document the Icon Apps included in Icon Toolbox. Again, Icon Toolbox will be a ButtonBar App Launcher for various Icon Applications.

After Icon press & Icon Split I will probably assemble another Icon App called "Icon Make". I try to keep the names simple & easy to remember. Icon Make may not be useful for everyone but Icon Artists who make hundreds of icon images may appreciate it. IconMake may also have a built-in Progressbar. We'll see how that goes.

Icon Make will have a similar GadTools user interface with buttons & text boxes. Given a folder full of pairs of PNG numbered icon images & an IconList text file with base names it will quickly process the paired images to produce PNG Icons. It's as easy as a few steps to setup the process.

Whereas it takes a few minutes to edit the IconList text file & then select the Input Folder & Output folder the rest is very fast. If you were to assemble four hundred icon images to make two hundred PNG Icons by hand it would take several hours. But IconMake can assemble them in less than two minutes. I know it can. I've already done it. 

When I say I need to "assemble" IconMake that's because the working code already exists. I wrote it a few years ago.

I hope someone finds it useful.

I would use IconMake to assemble all the Colored Drawer Icon Sets that I will produce with another small icon app called "Icon process" which uses BaseImages & Icon Masks to make hundreds of colored icon images. Both apps are part of Icon Batch Processing. Using "Icon Process" I can also specify the color of Glow Border. So far we can select "Gold Glow" or "Blue Glow" or "Green Glow". I have tried other colors but these work best. I can change the color of the glow border using HSL Color Shifting. I discovered that a while ago.

It's appealing to have a Charcoal Grey Iconset with neon blue glow borders. Surprisingly Orange Drawer Icons with neon blue glow borders are also quite nice! With the Colored Iconsets I will put together some colored Themes for window borders & icons. The "Big Cats" background with different color variations is particularly interesting. But you can experiment.

The last small icon app after that will be "Icon Color" which will change the Tint of PNG Icons using HSL Color Shifting.

Of course I would check with the original author for Ken's Icons before posting any new Colored Drawer Icons.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Very useful tools that do not exist on any platform