Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rice!titan!phil From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Icon manipulation programs. Message-ID: <1554@kalliope.rice.edu> Date: 24 Jun 88 17:28:06 GMT References: <5956@cup.portal.com> <6790010@hpcllld.HP.COM> <6172@cup.portal.com> <55354@sun.uucp> <6224@cup.portal.com>Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 33 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