Question about GLOWICONS!!

[barney]

I heard from people that Glowicons is a pretty cool program to use.  I went to Aminet.net to download but was seriously blown away from all the "glowicons" downloads.  Which one is the basic initial Glowicons program to make installation simple.

Also, which do you people prefer - Magic WB or Glowicons.  I have been using Magic Workbench over the last year and i have to say that I am getting rather sick of it.  Those large "hard drive" icons are starting to nauseate me.  Thanks.

Barney

[NovaCoder]

GlowIcons (which came standard with OS3.9) are the way to go, this will give you an idea of how good AGA can look

[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

[Methuselas]

Actually, if you replace the icon.library from 3.1 with the one from 3.5 or 3.9, a Workbench 3.1 install will display glow icons.

But, you didn't hear that from me. XD

[barney]

I atttempted to install "Newicons" but it cancelled the installation.  It stated that I need the ClassAct 2.0 GUI system installed.  It gave an address to obtain this program, but the address is no longer active.  Attempting to find this ClassAct program.

Barney

[Karlos]

I atttempted to install "Newicons" but it cancelled the installation.  It stated that I need the ClassAct 2.0 GUI system installed.  It gave an address to obtain this program, but the address is no longer active.  Attempting to find this ClassAct program.

Barney

Which version of AmigaOS are you using?

[barney]

I am using WB 3.1.  I unzip the newicons lha file and click on "install" icon.  It pops up a windows stating that I need classact2.0.  It then kicks me out of the install.  I tried the "installnewicon" tool, but that doesn't seem to do a darn thing.

Barney

[zipper]

ClassAction 3.6 is:
http://aminet.net/util/wb/CA36.lha

[barney]

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

Barney

[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

[rkauer]

ClassAct is similar to MUI.

 Not trolling your post, friend, but MUI have much more functionalities than just showing new icons on Workbench.

 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.

 Example: you have some .jpeg images in a drawer of the HD with no icons given to them. When you are running ClassAct and you open that drawer you'll see the icons with a little image with "jpeg" stated in them. Nice.

 BTW: MUI and ClassAct don't clashes each other. :-)

[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.

[kolla]

Not trolling your post, friend, but MUI have much more functionalities than just showing new icons on Workbench.

 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.

 Example: you have some .jpeg images in a drawer of the HD with no icons given to them. When you are running ClassAct and you open that drawer you'll see the icons with a little image with "jpeg" stated in them. Nice.

 BTW: MUI and ClassAct don't clashes each other. :-)

Oh boy, did you just lose a heapload of cred points... :roflmao:

[Matt_H]

ClassAction 3.6 is:
http://aminet.net/util/wb/CA36.lha

ClassAction is different from ClassAct, which is what Barney actually needs.

[barney]

Thanks for the info.  I did find a demo version of classact on aminet.net.  In installed it and OS 3.5 installed perfectly.  Funny thing is that my icons didn't change at all.  They are the same icons as in OS 3.1.  Is this bizarre?  Shouldn't they be somewhat different?