3.2.1 IconEdit - Could not obtain enough color pens

[boemann]

Originally Posted by orphan264

I was unable to make it open in a public screen. Can you tell me what the syntax is for the tooltype?



I have not yet selected an icon to edit. If I make my workbench depth 256 colors, I can start IconEdit, which seems to default to a drawer icon. Anything less than 256 color screen fails to start without attempting to "Downgrade" and then fails.



I do have AGA and tried 32/64/128 and had no luck.

Thanks

Even if you just open IconEdit without any icon, it will still try to load default icon which is also glowicon if you installed glowicons

[Channel-Z]

I tried it and it worked with by adding tooltype PUBSCREEN=IconEdit

[PeterK]

Originally Posted by PeterK

… did you try out to add tooltypes like "PUBSCREEN=name" or "PUBLICSCREEN"? What does SnoopDos display? Which tooltypes are checked by IconEdit when you start it?

Originally Posted by SnoopDOS

I tried it and it worked with by adding tooltype PUBSCREEN=IconEdit

Thank you, that's great! But I didn't thought about you when pointing out to ask SnoopDos.

[orphan264]

Originally Posted by Michael

Set a tooltype PUBSCREEN
Then when you run IconEdit it will open a new screen in same resolution as WB but at 8 bit depth 256c (on AGA) or at 8-32bits for RTG.
Them you can load any Colour (GlowIcon)
All this icons are usually less then 256c
If it does not load, your icons are not of system supported type.

As you suggested, I tried PUBSCREEN alone as a tooltype and it worked! I also tried PUBSCREEN= and it doesn't seem to care what public screen I specify, it always opens its own. Also, I don't know why this didn't work the first time I tried it (several messages back)

So, I am still stuck on a 256 color screen, but at least I don't need to fiddle with my workbench.

Thanks Michael!

[orphan264]

Originally Posted by boemann

Even if you just open IconEdit without any icon, it will still try to load default icon which is also glowicon if you installed glowicons

I do have glowicons installed. I was working my way to this very conclusion. Thanks for confirmation!

[orphan264]

Originally Posted by SnoopDOS

I tried it and it worked with by adding tooltype PUBSCREEN=IconEdit

I have been able to make it work by specifying PUBSCREEN, however I was unable to make it work by specifying a public screen. I will try a few more times.

Thanks!

[orphan264]

Originally Posted by PeterK

Thank you, that's great! But I didn't thought about you when pointing out to ask SnoopDos.

[superkahraman]

I get same error message.
But in my situation default tool icon is Dual-PNG.
I run IconEdit from Shell with any icon file that is not PNG.


1>SYS:Tools/IconEdit NonPNGIcon.info

[boemann]

Originally Posted by superkahraman

I get same error message.
But in my situation default tool icon is Dual-PNG.
I run IconEdit from Shell with any icon file that is not PNG.


1>SYS:Tools/IconEdit NonPNGIcon.info

Unless you run it from Workbench it will not pick up on the tooltypes, such as PUBSCREEN

[boemann]

Originally Posted by PeterK

Btw, I've no idea what "Downgrade" should do? Using less colors?

When loading an icon it first tries with exact color match - if this is impossible and you say downgrade then it will try again with less accurate color matching

if it still doesn't succeed to get the pens it will quit

Now some details about what it does: It may have allocated 10 pens before pen 11 can't be allocated and it asks to downgrade. It will then try with pen 11 again using less precision.

In 3.2.2 I will change this so it frees the 10 pens before trying to allocate all the pens using less precision. This makes it succeed in more cases