powericons icons going walkies

[nasty]

i thought i'd get around to replacing my icon again and now wishing i didnt. I've replaced afew icons and they are working fine but now im having afew issues with ram and my other partition icons, here's what im doing for the ram icon:

using copyicon to replace the old magic workbench icon and the snapshooting the new icon and using the following command in shell:

Copy Ram:disk.info envrc/sys/def_ram.info

and on reboot the mwb icon is back
im not to sure on the other partitions tho dh0/1/2! if i replace the workbench (dh0) the icon changes fine then on reboot its gone back to the default 3.9 icon :getmad:  

[quenthal]

You could add following line to you s-s or u-s after starting env:

copy envrc:sys/def_ram.info Ram:disk.info >NIL:

It's strange that the same is happening to hard drive icons too...

[AMC258]

I have always had a directory Sys:RAM-Archive/ which contains the entire contents of RAM: on bootup, which means the disk icon is permanent and snapshotted.

[nasty]

copy envrc:sys/def_ram.info Ram:disk.info >NIL:

thank you for your help guys, but still no joy.  

but after messing around for afew hour's i notice that some boots the workbench icon would be the default icon except it would be blue and on other times i would boot the workbench icon would be the nice png icon but the work partition would be the default icon and blue :-?

[motorollin]

nasty wrote:
using copyicon to replace the old magic workbench icon and the snapshooting the new icon and using the following command in shell:

Copy Ram:disk.info envrc/sys/def_ram.info

and on reboot the mwb icon is back

Make sure you copy the icon to SYS:Prefs/Envarc/Sys - the path you quoted above is wrong. Also don't use CopyIcon, as that is used to copy an icon to another one. Just use the normal copy command. So the command you want is:

Copy RAM:disk.info SYS:Prefs/Envarc/Sys/def_ram.info

If that doesn't work, try adding the following line to your user-startup:

Copy SYS:Prefs/Envarc/Sys/def_ram.info RAM:disk.info

That should force the RAM disk to take the new icon on every boot.

nasty wrote:
im not to sure on the other partitions tho dh0/1/2! if i replace the workbench (dh0) the icon changes fine then on reboot its gone back to the default 3.9 icon :getmad:  

Do other icons still show the PowerIcon even if the volume icons don't? If so then it sounds like it hasn't copied correctly. In OS3.9 you don't need to use CopyIcon. Just single click on the drive, bring up the Information window (which in 3.9 is handled by RAWBInfo) and you will be able to drag the new icon on to the old one in the info window and it will be replaced.

quenthal wrote:
You could add following line to you s-s or u-s after starting env:

copy envrc:sys/def_ram.info Ram:disk.info >NIL:

Everyone seems to be leaving the "a" out of "envarc" :-) Also, I'm not 100% sure there is an ENVARC: assign, so it's safer to use SYS:Prefs/Envarc to be sure it can find the file.

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moto

[nasty]

thanks moto, my ram icon has now been changed but now its turned to the default 3.9 workbench icon :-? if i go to information on each partition then it displays the new png icon in the information window.  If i hit save it changes the workbench icon to the new png icon, but then on reboot it goes back to the default!

[motorollin]

Can you post your Startup-Sequence, in particular the part where PowerIcons is being run? Maybe it's in the wrong place.

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moto

[nasty]

Assign >NIL: ENV: RAM:ENV
Assign >NIL: T: RAM:T
Assign >NIL: CLIPS: RAM:Clipboards
Assign >NIL: REXX: S:
Assign >NIL: PRINTERS: DEVS:Printers
Assign >NIL: KEYMAPS: DEVS:Keymaps
Assign >NIL: LOCALE: SYS:Locale
Assign >NIL: LIBS: SYS:Classes ADD
Assign >NIL: HELP: LOCALE:Help DEFER

BindDrivers
C:Mount >NIL: DEVS:DOSDrivers/~(#?.info)

C:LoadMonDrvs

SetEnv Language "english"
SetEnv Workbench $Workbench
SetEnv Kickstart $Kickstart
UnSet Workbench
UnSet Kickstart

C:AddDataTypes REFRESH QUIET
C:IPrefs
C:ConClip

Path >NIL: RAM: C: SYS:Utilities SYS:Rexxc SYS:System S: SYS:Prefs SYS:WBStartup SYS:Tools SYS:Tools/Commodities

SYS:System/REXXMast >NIL:

IF EXISTS S:User-Startup
  Execute S:User-Startup
EndIF

Resident Execute REMOVE
Resident Assign REMOVE
Run >NIL: Powericons >NIL:
C:LoadWB
EndCLI >NIL:

end of file

[motorollin]

That looks fine. Anything else in User-Startup or WBStartup which is either patching something else to do with icons, or re-launching (and thus disabling) PowerIcons? Also, are you using the latest version of PowerIcons?

If all else fails, I can only recommend using AfA. You get lots of extra benefits over PowerIcons, and you might find it works for you even if PowerIcons doesn't.

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moto

[nasty]

think this might be the cause of the problem:
user-startup

copy > NIL: SYS:S/RAM.info TO RAM:Disk.info                                                  ; added by MagicWB

run >nil: C:MagicWB-Demon 4,123,123,123 5,175,175,175 6,170,144,124 7,255,169,151 8,0,0,255  ; added by MagicWB
;BEGIN ActivateCrossIDEfix
ActivateCrossIDEfix ALL
;END ActivateCrossIDEfix
;BEGIN CacheCDFS
;END CacheCDFS
assign >NIL: MagicWB: SYS:Prefs/MagicWB-Images
;BEGIN ViNCEd
; Remove the ; default console handler CON:
; Entfernen Sie das ; die Standardkonsole CON: verwenden wollen.
COPY SYS:Prefs/Env-archive/sys/def_ram.info  Ram:disk.info
;SetVNC Quiet Mount Override as CON:

; Remove the ; gadgets with new functions from ViNCEd that can be set with prefs tool ViNCEd.
; Entfernen Sie das ; Fähigkeiten von ViNCEd in Texteingabefeldern wollen. Diese konfigurieren Sie
; auch mit dem Voreinsteller ViNCEd.

;StringSnip >NIL: INSTALL

; Remove the ; assigns in pattern matching commands.
; Entfernen Sie das ; Unterstützung der mehrfach Assign in Dateinamensmustern wünschen.

;TrueMultiAssigns
;END ViNCEd
;BEGIN Genesis
assign AmiTCP: "Workbench:Internet/Genesis"
;END Genesis
;BEGIN Mixer
Path sys:prefs ADD
Mixer NOGUI QUIET
;END Mixer
;BEGIN Picasso96
Assign Picasso96: "Work:Picasso96"
;END Picasso96

ok removed the mwb and the icons have gone to 3.1 icons. so i'll format and have a fresh install of 3.9 except from this time i wont install magic workbench

[motorollin]

Why not just comment out the line?

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moto

[nasty]

tryed and still didnt work, so nothing much to do today so i'll just do a fresh install and try AFA_os out looks kinda cool :-)

[motorollin]

AfA is awesome. You won't need PowerIcons, VisualPrefs, or any TTF font hacks - AfA does it all for you :-D

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moto

[Framiga]

i would try this also:

Run >NIL: Powericons >NIL:
wait 1
C:LoadWB
EndCLI >NIL:

and add this option to powericons command

SCROLLSPEEDUP

i.e

Run >NIL: C:Powericons SCROLLSPEEDUP >NIL: