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Operating System Specific Discussions => Amiga OS => Amiga OS -- Application questions and support => Topic started by: sturulez on April 23, 2020, 12:35:27 AM
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Hi,
I have updated the Ram Disk and the Workbench Drawer on my main screen with the glowicons, is there a way I can update my Games and HDD drawer with glow icons?
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The normal way, I guess?
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You need to do it manually. I thing this would be good choise for that http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/CopyIcon44
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Yes... Just set aside an hour or so and use one of the icon copy utilities. I have not found a better way to do it.
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You can also use the Info window (RAmiga+I) to replace icons. Just drag the new icon over the one in the Info window, hit save, and you're done. I like this method because 1) it preserves all your positioning/snapshotting settings (in contrast to replacing the entire .info file) and 2) it doesn't require typing exact filenames into the shell.
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You can also use the Info window (RAmiga+I) to replace icons. Just drag the new icon over the one in the Info window, hit save, and you're done. I like this method because 1) it preserves all your positioning/snapshotting settings (in contrast to replacing the entire .info file) and 2) it doesn't require typing exact filenames into the shell.
works great but won't work on a CD Drive as I'm getting 'drive is write-protected' when I click save.
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That's because you can't write to a CD. Sorry, that just can't be done.
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There is a a program on Aminet which lets you change icons on CDs. But I cannot remember the name.
(Of course it does not write to the CD, but caches changes on harddisk.)
Edit: doesn't look familiar, but from the description this is the program: http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/VirtualIcons
There also was a commercial software product called CD-Write which could do the same for all files on a CD.
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You can also use the Info window (RAmiga+I) to replace icons. Just drag the new icon over the one in the Info window, hit save, and you're done. I like this method because 1) it preserves all your positioning/snapshotting settings (in contrast to replacing the entire .info file) and 2) it doesn't require typing exact filenames into the shell.
works great but won't work on a CD Drive as I'm getting 'drive is write-protected' when I click save.
If you want to change/modify the default CD0: icon (the one that appears on the Workbench), that's ENVARC:Sys/def_cd0.info.
If a CD has its own Disk.info, that will override the default icon, however.
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Edit: doesn't look familiar, but from the description this is the program: http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/VirtualIcons
Sadly, this one doesn't seem to work with OS 3.1.4, at least not with PeterK's iconlib 46.4 (didn't even try with "native" icon.library).
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You can also use the Info window (RAmiga+I) to replace icons. Just drag the new icon over the one in the Info window, hit save, and you're done. I like this method because 1) it preserves all your positioning/snapshotting settings (in contrast to replacing the entire .info file) and 2) it doesn't require typing exact filenames into the shell.
works great but won't work on a CD Drive as I'm getting 'drive is write-protected' when I click save.
If you want to change/modify the default CD0: icon (the one that appears on the Workbench), that's ENVARC:Sys/def_cd0.info.
If a CD has its own Disk.info, that will override the default icon, however.
checked that cdo.info in envarc and it does shows the CD icon but dammit all the CD's I burned years that don't have any icon.info file on them always show up as a disk but not CD??
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checked that cdo.info in envarc and it does shows the CD icon but dammit all the CD's I burned years that don't have any icon.info file on them always show up as a disk but not CD??
Two possibilities come to mind:
1) I may have spoken too quickly. This feature is in 3.5/3.9. I can’t recall if it’s been backported to 3.1.4.
2) Is your CD device actually called “CD0” or is it called something else like “CD”? You’ll need to rename/clone the deficon to match.