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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Has anyone gotten
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Date: 7 Feb 89 14:54:44 GMT
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In <381@antares.UUCP>, jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith) writes:
>In article <2194@van-bc.UUCP> lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>>>>Has anyone had any luck with IconType?  Does anyone have some OTHER utility
>>>>(presumably better-known to work) that will do a similar job?  Thanks
>>Here's the corrected code:
>	[IconType.c deleted]
>
>Well I just tried IconType, and it produced the most spectacular
>crash I've ever seen.  Just after compiling it, this is what I did:
>
>	1>CD SYS2:
>	1>copy system/IconEd.info TEST.info
>	1>makedir TEST
>	1>IconType TEST drawer
>	1>loadwb

Well, I hope it at least complained about the filename. :-)

>The TEST icon showed up in the SYS2: window.  I single-clicked on it and
>chose INFO from the menu and verified that the icon was of type Drawer.
>Then I double-clicked the icon.  Boy, you should have seen the fireworks!

Ahh... OK. When I made the changes, I did not check for double-clicking. The
original program worked for me, and the changes I made were to allow the CLI to
close. I do not currently use WB, and IconType passed all the usage I gave it
when I used to use it.

>Both disk drives started grumbling at about 7 Hz.  The SEND and RECV lights
>on the modem flickered between full and half brightness in sync with the
>disks.  The screen made pretty black, white, and green patterns that looked
>like "random" bits from executable code.  Then it froze, with the screen
>white and the light on DF0 on but the disk was not spinning.
>
>Giving my Amiga the three-fingered salute, I tried to reboot from my usual
>Workbench disk.  It died in the middle of the startup-sequence with:
>	Internal clock not functioning
>	Setclock failed returncode 20
>Luckily, a 30-second power down fixed this problem.  Otherwise I would have
>had to disassemble my A2000 to temporarily disconnect the battery to reset
>the clock.

You really should have Glenn Nielsen's 'Clockstart' program.

>It looks like I will have to use SIT from Fish Disk #137 instead of IconType.
>The Set-Icon-Type program by Stephen Vermeulen knows that you can't change
>a Tool icon to a Drawer icon by simply rewriting one byte.  SIT reads an
>existing Drawer/Disk/Trashcan icon to get the proper info for setting up
>the do_DrawerInfo field.

Please do. I am not being sarcastic. I wrote IconType a long time ago so that I
wouldn't have to muck about with convoluted proceures in IconEd just to convert
an icon to a different type. At the time, I dug into the manuals and found what
I thought was all that was needed to change the icon's type. I guess I was
wrong. I do not plan on doing more to IconType, especialy since SIT is out
there from someone who apparently knows how it's done.

>So, Larry, did you actually test your program?

Apparently not enough. I changed a few icons that I found on a disk somewhere,
checked that they changed type by using INFO, and checked to see that the CLI
would then close. Sorry.

-larry

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