Question about GLOWICONS!!

[Thomas]

Which one is the basic initial Glowicons program to make installation simple.

There is no "GlowIcons program". GlowIcons is a style how to draw icons, not a program. Therefore on Aminet you will only find icons, not a program to be installed.

The "basic initial" set of GlowIcons (i.e. the icons for all the programs on the boot partitions) is not available for free. It comes with OS 3.5 and OS 3.9.

Icons stored in OS 3.5+ format cannot be used on pre-3.5 systems easily. Most GlowIcons are stored in this format.

The program to use GlowIcons-style icons on WB 3.1 is NewIcons. But as already mentioned it cannot use OS 3.5 icons out of the box. OS 3.5 icons can be converted to NewIcons by Convert35Icon, but it needs files from the OS 3.5 or 3.9 CD to work.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

Is "Classaction" the same thing as "Classact"?

No. ClassAction is a directory manager like DirOpus, but written using the ClassAct GUI engine. ClassAct is similar to MUI.

This is ClassAct:
http://aminet.net/package/dev/gui/ClassAct2Demo
http://aminet.net/package/dev/gui/classact33

[Thomas]

OK, so is ClassAct. It gives the Workbench the ability to recognize an archive by its type and gives a standard new style icon to it.

You are completely mixing up things. ClassAct is a GUI engine like MUI is. What you are speaking about is DefIcons. This has nothing to do with ClassAct.

The preferences program of NewIcons is written using ClassAct. That's why the installer demands ClassAct before installation. DefIcons is contained in the NewIcons archive. The installer does not need to ask for it.