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Title: Icon 'caching' utility for the Amiga?
Post by: mingle on May 24, 2010, 12:51:09 PM

Hi,

Does anyone know of a program that will 'cache' the icons in a directory, so when I open it in Workbench the icons are there pretty much instantaneously, without having to parse and display each icon one by one?

Cheers,

Mike.

Title: Re: Icon 'caching' utility for the Amiga?
Post by: pVC on May 24, 2010, 03:58:04 PM

DOpus Magellan, but for plain WB I don't remember now...

Title: Re: Icon 'caching' utility for the Amiga?
Post by: Gulliver on May 24, 2010, 06:57:22 PM

IconBeFast (Aminet) or Icon.library 46.4.163 (Aminet), which are from the same author, use a color distance table of only 1 KB to avoid many time consuming calculations or compares and branches.
For further optimization it has a cache for colormap decoding. The loading of 256 color GlowIcons can be 6+ times faster now. You need at least a Workbench with 32 colors to get a profit.

Title: Re: Icon 'caching' utility for the Amiga?
Post by: zipper on May 24, 2010, 08:04:09 PM

And WB3.5+ (?)

Title: Re: Icon 'caching' utility for the Amiga?
Post by: Gulliver on May 24, 2010, 08:17:03 PM

Quote from: zipper;560689

And WB3.5+ (?)

Not really, Glowicons, and IconBeFast can also work with 3.1 and probably with 3.0 too.
I believe not everyone knows that. :(

Title: Re: Icon 'caching' utility for the Amiga?
Post by: zipper on May 24, 2010, 08:26:49 PM

I happened to read iconbefast docs and this popped into me: IBF 2.0+ needs the OS 3.5+ icon.library  - so it's just the library. (Was going to recommend iconbefast but you were faster ;) )