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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Software News => Topic started by: Mr.Carlito on November 25, 2003, 12:29:22 PM

Title: First FREEWARE PNG Icon replacemante package for the Workbench!
Post by: Mr.Carlito on November 25, 2003, 12:29:22 PM

WB-Screenshot: http://amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=523
Download Link: http://os.newcorp.amigadev.net/community/index.php?cat=8

Title: Re: First FREEWARE PNG Icon replacemante package for the Wor
Post by: KennyR on November 25, 2003, 01:18:28 PM

Very nice! Looks a bit like KDE, but has enough nice touches to make it obvious you're looking at an Amiga setup.

Title: Re: First FREEWARE PNG Icon replacemante package for the Wor
Post by: Cluke on November 25, 2003, 01:55:05 PM

Very nice... but can someone explain to me what you gain by having PNG format icons? I'm genuinely curious, not trolling! ;-) What are the advantages? Is it to do with the transparency? What happens tooltype info, and different 'selected' images?

Thanks...

Title: Re: First FREEWARE PNG Icon replacemante package for the Wor
Post by: KennyR on November 25, 2003, 02:30:09 PM

PNG Icons have these advantages, at least:

* They're flexible and expandable. The PNG format can support lots of nice tricks.

* They can support up to 32 bit colour (24 bit with alpha channel).

* They are supported by other platforms, including Linux. Just pick up files from there, no conversion.

* They are proper chunky data and not hacked.

The native Amiga icon system can't do any of these things, and that's just things I can remember.

Title: Re: First FREEWARE PNG Icon replacemante package for the Wor
Post by: mepmepmep on November 25, 2003, 02:41:39 PM

@Mr. Carlito
What program did you use to draw these icons?

Title: Re: First FREEWARE PNG Icon replacemante package for the Wor
Post by: pixie on November 25, 2003, 05:12:29 PM

What I would like to see was png being used like old amiga icons, wether by using animated PNGs (if PNG enables it) with 1rst frame being the released state and 2nd the click state, or a new kind of icon system based on png where like newicons could embebbed the two png images into the icon...

Title: Re: First FREEWARE PNG Icon replacemante package for the Wor
Post by: Roj on November 25, 2003, 06:39:56 PM

24bit icons look good, but as long as they have just one image which only turns color when they're clicked, they feel too much like someone's slowly trying to turn my Amiga into Windows. Especially with that awful "left-out" arrow on the first click. Blech

...just my opinion. :-)

Title: Re: First FREEWARE PNG Icon replacemante package for the Wor
Post by: dslcc on November 26, 2003, 12:42:06 AM

Any tips on how to download this file? I'm just getting the php file. Have tried it with Voyager and IE.

Thanks!

Title: Re: First FREEWARE PNG Icon replacemante package for the Wor
Post by: Gav on November 26, 2003, 02:10:51 AM

How do i view them? i open the files but there is nothing there?

Title: Re: First FREEWARE PNG Icon replacemante package for the Wor
Post by: Framiga on November 26, 2003, 03:11:59 PM

Hi Gav

you must install PowerIcons.

PowerIcons 1.05 (http://www.elena-fractals.it/Downloads/PowerIcons.lha)

Read the docs :-)

A little help for free . . . :

Copy PowerIcons in C:

Put this line in User-Startup: (or launch it from shell)

Run >NIL: C:PowerIcons SCROLLSPEEDUP

and enjoy :-)

Ciao

NOTE. use the SCROLLSPEEDUP option, only with PI 1.05.

Title: Re: First FREEWARE PNG Icon replacemante package for the Wor
Post by: Animagic on November 26, 2003, 06:44:58 PM

I don't know who made these, but i just converted all of them to winXP format :-D

My win desktop rocks!!!

Title: Re: First FREEWARE PNG Icon replacemante package for the Wor
Post by: Gav on November 26, 2003, 07:54:16 PM

Thanks :) it works but now i get a window that opens saying...
PowerIcons 1.05 [68k] ELENA DESIGHN 2003.
Patch applied. Call me again to quit...How do i stop this from popping up?
Thanks

Title: Re: First FREEWARE PNG Icon replacemante package for the Wor
Post by: Framiga on November 27, 2003, 01:05:16 PM

Hi Gav

type ALL the line :-)

Run >NIL: C:PowerIcons SCROLLSPEEDUP

Ciao

>

Title: Re: First FREEWARE PNG Icon replacemante package for the Wor
Post by: JaXanim on November 27, 2003, 07:39:54 PM

I think that should be:

Run >NIL: C:PowerIcons >NIL: ScrollSpeedup

The 1.05 readme is ambiguous on this.

Cheers,

JaX