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From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Icon manipulation programs.
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Date: 24 Jun 88 17:28:06 GMT
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There's at least one icon manipulation program that hasn't been written
yet.  If no one else does it anytime soon, I may set out to do it (but I
don't have much Amiga hacking experience---maybe it would be a good "first
real project" right after "hello, world").

There are a few crazed loonies out in the real world that like to read
black characters on a light background.  No, I'm not a Mac user...I'm
primarily a Sun user.  As a result, my workbench colors are completely
different from the "standard" set.  I use a black foreground and a light
tan-colored background.  I have my other colors set to red and blue.  That
makes my text windows look okay, but the icons look terrible!  I have
edited the more common ones using iconed to make them look better.  But
what I would really like to see is an icon tool that shuffles the colors
around.  For example:  swap colors 1 and 3 and colors 2 and 4 (or more
accurately, swap the pixels associated with those colors), or any user
specifiable permutation.  This would make it easy to "import" icons into
my non-standard environment and have them look reasonable.  The program
wouldn't change the shapes, just the "color value" for each pixel in the
image.  It should be able to handle merged icons as well (those with a
completely different "selected" bitmap).

Did that make sense?  Has anyone ever thought of this before?  It doesn't
sound very hard to me.  Does everyone *really* use white on blue?

By the way, I have also changed the cursor colors so that the snooze cloud
is pure white.  Looks great on a tan background!  Now if I could just
change the cloud itself......(and if it could just be available to
everyone).....Isn't that coming in 1.4?

			William LeFebvre
			Department of Computer Science
			Rice University