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info/Kelleher/!IcoConv/!Help
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
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| Filename: | info/Kelleher/!IcoConv/!Help |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 10E9 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
IcoConv Version 0.10
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(C) Joe Kelleher, 1996
IcoConv is a utility for converting Windows icons to Risc OS sprites. There
are a few programs about which will do this, but this one can also read sets
of icons stored in .EXE, .DLL or .ICL files.
Click on the iconbar icon to bring up a window showing all the icons
currently stored in the program. To load in new icons, drag a file either to
this window or the iconbar icon. Files between 766 and 768 bytes long are
interpreted as .ICO files, and other files are interpreted as .EXE, .DLL or
.ICL files (there is one handler for all three, as the formats for these are
all very similar). Any 3-letter DOS extension (separated by a "/") will be
removed from the name the icon has in the saved sprite file.
Menu Options
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The same menu is reached from either the main window or the iconbar.
'Save icons' will bring up a save box from where you can save the icons
currently stored in the program. They will all be saved in a single sprite
file. You can save the icons either as 16 colour Mode 27 sprites with a
Windows palette attached, or as 256 colour Mode 28 sprites with no palette.
Select 'Clear icons' to remove all the icons currently stored in the program.
All the memory previously used by the icons will be freed.
Select 'Scan for icons' to bring up a window to where you can drag a
directory, in order to scan the contents of that directory for files
containing icons. Drag a directory to that window (or enter a path in the
writable icon) and click 'Go'. A Filer_Action-like window should appear which
will scan though the files, loading in any icons that it finds. While a scan
is in progress, the 'Scan for icons' menu option will be greyed out, as only
one scan can be done at a time.
The 'Report errors' option on the menu can be ticked or unticked. If it is
ticked, an error message will be generated if you try to load in a file which
cannot be interpreted as a file which *could* contain icons. If it is
unticked, any bad files will simply be ignored. This could be useful if you
want to drag a collection of files into the program, only some of which
are capable of containing icons, and don't want errors to be generated for
those that aren't. Note that some executables written for early versions of
DOS cannot contain icons, and an error message will be displayed if the
Report errors option is ticked and you try to load such a file.
Getting icons
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Some example icons have been supplied. The file TIBicons contains the best of
those found in the freeware collection TIBICONS.DLL. The file 3Dicons1
contains the best of the .ICO icons found in an archive called 3DICONS1.ARJ.
Both can be found on some PC bulletin boards. You should also look out for a
Windows program called Icolib, which contains about 5000 icons as .ICL files.
By registering Icolib, you can receive a further 5000 icons or so.
If you have a PC partition, you can try this program on some of the files in
there. Your Windows directory (if you have Windows installed) should contain
a fair number. It would be inadvisable to do a scan on the entire PC
partition if large collections of icons are to be found on there, eg. if you
have Icolib installed.
Bugs, limitations etc.
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The program can be a bit slow when there are many icons already stored in the
program. I might be able to fix this. It also uses more memory than I would
have liked, mostly as a result of implementing the 'Scan for icons' option.
If you like, you can reduce the WimpSlot in the !Run file, if you're not
going to use this facility or if you're only going to use it with directory
structures that aren't very deep. If you reduce it by too much, you'll get a
fatal error informing you that there is not enough memory for the stack.
Saving with no icons present produces a file which !Paint doesn't like.
If you find anything that bothers you or you need to do something that you
can't, let me know and I'll see what I can do. This application has been
developed on a Risc PC 600 with RO3.6. It should work on all machines, but
has not been tested for this.
Contacting me
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By Email: JFK@arcade.demon.co.uk
By Post: Joe Kelleher
1, Grove Avenue
Gosport
Hampshire
PO12 1JX
JFK, 24/11/96
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Note th| 000008d0 61 74 20 73 6f 6d 65 20 65 78 65 63 75 74 61 62 |at some executab| 000008e0 6c 65 73 20 77 72 69 74 74 65 6e 20 66 6f 72 20 |les written for | 000008f0 65 61 72 6c 79 20 76 65 72 73 69 6f 6e 73 20 6f |early versions o| 00000900 66 0a 44 4f 53 20 63 61 6e 6e 6f 74 20 63 6f 6e |f.DOS cannot con| 00000910 74 61 69 6e 20 69 63 6f 6e 73 2c 20 61 6e 64 20 |tain icons, and | 00000920 61 6e 20 65 72 72 6f 72 20 6d 65 73 73 61 67 65 |an error message| 00000930 20 77 69 6c 6c 20 62 65 20 64 69 73 70 6c 61 79 | will be display| 00000940 65 64 20 69 66 20 74 68 65 0a 52 65 70 6f 72 74 |ed if the.Report| 00000950 20 65 72 72 6f 72 73 20 6f 70 74 69 6f 6e 20 69 | errors option i| 00000960 73 20 74 69 63 6b 65 64 20 61 6e 64 20 79 6f 75 |s ticked and you| 00000970 20 74 72 79 20 74 6f 20 6c 6f 61 64 20 73 75 63 | try to load suc| 00000980 68 20 61 20 66 69 6c 65 2e 0a 0a 47 65 74 74 69 |h a file...Getti| 00000990 6e 67 20 69 63 6f 6e 73 0a b0 b0 b0 b0 b0 b0 b0 |ng icons........| 000009a0 b0 b0 b0 b0 b0 b0 0a 53 6f 6d 65 20 65 78 61 6d |.......Some exam| 000009b0 70 6c 65 20 69 63 6f 6e 73 20 68 61 76 65 20 62 |ple icons have b| 000009c0 65 65 6e 20 73 75 70 70 6c 69 65 64 2e 20 54 68 |een supplied. Th| 000009d0 65 20 66 69 6c 65 20 54 49 42 69 63 6f 6e 73 20 |e file TIBicons | 000009e0 63 6f 6e 74 61 69 6e 73 20 74 68 65 20 62 65 73 |contains the bes| 000009f0 74 20 6f 66 0a 74 68 6f 73 65 20 66 6f 75 6e 64 |t of.those found| 00000a00 20 69 6e 20 74 68 65 20 66 72 65 65 77 61 72 65 | in the freeware| 00000a10 20 63 6f 6c 6c 65 63 74 69 6f 6e 20 54 49 42 49 | collection TIBI| 00000a20 43 4f 4e 53 2e 44 4c 4c 2e 20 54 68 65 20 66 69 |CONS.DLL. The fi| 00000a30 6c 65 20 33 44 69 63 6f 6e 73 31 0a 63 6f 6e 74 |le 3Dicons1.cont| 00000a40 61 69 6e 73 20 74 68 65 20 62 65 73 74 20 6f 66 |ains the best of| 00000a50 20 74 68 65 20 2e 49 43 4f 20 69 63 6f 6e 73 20 | the .ICO icons | 00000a60 66 6f 75 6e 64 20 69 6e 20 61 6e 20 61 72 63 68 |found in an arch| 00000a70 69 76 65 20 63 61 6c 6c 65 64 20 33 44 49 43 4f |ive called 3DICO| 00000a80 4e 53 31 2e 41 52 4a 2e 0a 42 6f 74 68 20 63 61 |NS1.ARJ..Both ca| 00000a90 6e 20 62 65 20 66 6f 75 6e 64 20 6f 6e 20 73 6f |n be found on so| 00000aa0 6d 65 20 50 43 20 62 75 6c 6c 65 74 69 6e 20 62 |me PC bulletin b| 00000ab0 6f 61 72 64 73 2e 20 59 6f 75 20 73 68 6f 75 6c |oards. 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