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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: MWB Icon colors
« on: August 29, 2017, 11:49:27 PM »
Set your palette correctly and lock it with a tool like FullPalette:

http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/FullPalette22

Note that you should be running in an 8+ color screenmode for MWB icons to look correct.

This guide is good: http://www.mfilos.com/2012/01/guide-making-workbench-prettier-using.html

Also, if you're not already using the Peter K. icon.library, you should be:

http://aminet.net/package/util/libs/IconLib_46.4

Edit: You may run into other issues because you're using "ClassicWB".  IMHO rubbish.  ;)
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: MWB Icon colors
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2017, 08:20:44 PM »
The Peter K. icon.library will display all icon formats correctly (with a suitable pallette, obviously). You don't need to convert them to a lesser format unless, for example, you want to reduce the file size of the .info file so they open more quickly.
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: MWB Icon colors
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2017, 08:55:17 PM »
Quote from: kirk_m;830328
Ah, then I am possibly misunderstanding what the icon.library does.  I was assuming it would change the icon set to something better than the default WB 3.1 icon set.  If I want better looking icons for 3.1, where do I look?


Icon.library provides the routines the OS uses to draw the icons. If you just want different icon sets look on Aminet. Hundreds available - MagicWB, NewIcons, GlowIcons, etc., etc.
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