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From: ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.OZ (Ian Farquhar 7420)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Looking for Icon Editor
Summary: There are several alternatives
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Date: 26 Nov 89 10:42:59 GMT
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In article <CIMSHOP!DAVIDM.89Nov24184221@uunet.UU.NET> cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes:
>The other day, my brother and I were comparing notes about Amiga programs and
>found we didn't have any good Icon Editor between us.  Having been on the
>various networks and BBSes, we found that surprising.  So how do people go
>about creating those incredibly large, alternate image icons?  Did we miss a
>program in the Fish library?
>

There are several ways to produce some good, effective animated icons.
One of the best is a little program called IconAssembler, which takes an
IFF image (usually a brush from DPAINT), and converts it to an icon.
You can animate this using the MergeIcon program supplied by CBM.

There is also a program I have somewhere in my collection (I think it is
on one of the TBAG disks) that is an improved version of IconEd, and
adds line drawing and all of the things needed to produce decent icons
quickly.

While I am discussing icons, wouldn't it be nice if we could specify
more than two images, and thus have a real animation.  It would require
changes to intuitions gadget handling, but it could be very effective.
Unfortunately, it would also mean that some people could produce full
disk icons.....   Oh well.

If anybody cannot find these utilities, please mail me and I will see
what I can do.

Signature: Who cares?  Who reads them anyway.

D