icon.library 46.4 test versions

[utri007]

Originally Posted by PeterK

Hmm, where do you live (on the dark side of the moon or in the dark winter in Finland?) and how long didn't you update my icon.library? Look at the 1. page of this thread and try out one of the IconDemo floppy images for HAM6 or HAM8 if you have Kickstart 3.0 or 3.1, but not on 3.1.4 or Hyperion 40.72. For OS 3.1.4 it's also possible to use the hm020 or HM020 versions, but you would need a different FBlit.cfg and the DefIcons tool v44+, and no DontShowIBorder.

And NO! You won't need any special HAM iconsets when you install my hm020 or HM020 version, all existing icons are automatically displayed in HAM6 or HAM8 without changing the icon files. But you have to install the correct FullPalette.prefs file in ENVARC:sys. So, only support for either HAM6 or HAM8 is possible, but not both at the same time. (Don't forget, floppies are very slow)

OK, tried this today, but I can't get it work.

First I have 1mb kickstart with 3.1.4 modules, your icon.library 46.4 and some other modules inside of it. Including workbench.library. I use MULibs to map it to fast ram.

Version command doesn't tell much, it just says that icon.library is 46.4, is it new enough?

I installed ullpalette and included prefs file. I doesn't seem to work with MuiScreenmode wich can promote Wb to use HAM8 screenmode.? I would like NOT to put anything new to my DEVS/Monitors drawer.

[PeterK]

No, you can not just use any icon.library 46.4. You will need the "-hm020" version for HAM6 or the "_HM020" for HAM8. Best to use the latest build 511. Copy one of them to Libs:icon.library without the extension or put it into your custom ROM. If you want to make some tests before changing the ROM, you could remove the wrong resident library with "RemLib >NIL: icon.library" (don't add a path like 'Libs:').

To check the installed version use "Version icon.library FULL". It should display "(hm020)" or "(HM020)" at the end.

Make sure that the correct FullPalette.prefs file is installed in ENVARC:Sys and nowhere else. The files for HAM6 and HAM8 differ, because HAM6 has 16 base colors and HAM8 64 base colors. So, don't mix them up.

Enable the "HAM" option in MUIScreenmodePrefs and use 16 base colors for HAM6 or 64 base colors for HAM8.

In case you want to try FBlit use the FBlit.cfg for WB 3.1.4/3.5/3.9 and remove every P96 driver like Native from Devs:monitors.

[utri007]

Thanks again. So I need to add something like this to ss


RemLib >NIL: icon.library
LoadResident >NIL: LIBS:icon.library REBOOT


But also a FullPalette prefs, I need to check from readme how to do that.

[PeterK]

No, only RemLib >NIL: icon.library
(LoadResident or LoadModule will probably not work, because they won't replace a library by another one with the same version number or you would get into a reboot loop).

Copy FullPalette.prefs to ENVARC:Sys, FPPrefs to C: and call FPPrefs after IPrefs in your s-s.

[utri007]

Originally Posted by PeterK

No, only RemLib >NIL: icon.library
(LoadResident or LoadModule will probably not work, because they won't replace a library by another one with the same version number or you would get into a reboot loop).

OK, I'm confused, if I can't use loadresident or loadmodule, how do I load it? Setpatch loads it? I neet to put remlib before setpatch?

[AMIGASYSTEM]

You can easily add the RemLib command to the user-startup, Loadmodule replaces library only if the one in the kickstart is different

[utri007]

Originally Posted by AMIGASYSTEM

You can easily add the RemLib command to the user-startup, Loadmodule replaces library only if the one in the kickstart is different

Yes, remlib unloads module? But does it also load module, from libs??

[kolla]

Originally Posted by utri007

Yes, remlib unloads module? But does it also load module, from libs??

Why would it have to? It's just a library, like all the others in LIBS:, and will be loaded when needed.

[utri007]

Originally Posted by kolla

Why would it have to? It's just a library, like all the others in LIBS:, and will be loaded when needed.

OK, thanks. I ques I was trapped to thought it needs to be resident, because it is in rom.

[utri007]

Tested, I couldn't get it work.

Library loaded OK, checked with version icon.library FULL command.
FullPaletter prefs loaded
Screenmode changed with MUI Screemode to HAM

Prety sure that there wasn't more than 64 colors. I have some OS4 icons wich are true color and Glow isons are also a 16 bit colors?

I tried with Picasso96 native driver, but also a FBLIt with included config file.

[PeterK]

Please make a screenshot with the FullPalette Preferences editor, the MUIScreenmodePrefs and the attached 3 icons from T.zip.

Update: Of course, background images (wallpapers) can only share the 16 or 64 fixed base colors of the HAM6 or HAM8 palette. Maybe that is the reason why you were confused?

[utri007]

Originally Posted by PeterK

Please make a screenshot with the FullPalette Preferences editor, the MUIScreenmodePrefs and the attached 3 icons from T.zip.

Update: Of course, background images (wallpapers) can only share the 16 or 64 fixed base colors of the HAM6 or HAM8 palette. Maybe that is the reason why you were confused?

You are right, it do work. My expectations might have been too high. Sorry Though those os3.9 icons should have also get benefits from this? I ques I need to convert background image to IFF / HAM8, to get it look good.

[PeterK]

Yes, OS 3.5+ ColorIcons also benefit, because each of them can have its own 255 colors out of 16 million, not depending all on the same shared screens palette. HAM8 can display up to ~262000+ colors and HAM6 4096. Your icons seem to have 32 colors only and I feel ashamed that I don't know a magic trick to let them look more colorful, not even on a TrueColor screen. Any suggestions on how to do that are welcome.

A very good compromise between excellent quality, fast speed and low memory consumption are Ken's Icons v1-v3 with up to 255 colors. My personal favorite is the v2 iconset.
http://www.five-star.com/kens_icons/downloads/
For more iconsets have a look into my Aminet package under downloads. You can use any TrueColor OS4 or PNG iconset too and convert them into ColorIcons by calling "ConvertTrueColor", update the window and snapshot PNG icons or save IconInfo of OS4 icons.

If you want to make a HAM wallpaper then you would need to use exactly my 16 or 64 base colors for the HAM6 or HAM8 palette (included as IFF in my package). But a HAM background has the disadvantage of producing HAM color glitches when parts of it are covered by a window in front of it. You will see many HAM ramps because there is a wrong information for the blitter at the border about what the (Hold) color of the previous pixel under the window was. You can notice this effect already when you move a window partially over my colorwheel icon.

[kolla]

Did we ever conclude on whether HAM backdrops work with post OS 3.1 v40 Workbench?

[PeterK]

No, I didn't try it out yet. It may depend on the picture.datatype, the used datatype and WBPattern or something else.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Ciao Pietro, i noticed that the good old IconEditor OS3.9 on my OS can load/edited/save the Icon and the OS 4.1 format
They are not of quality, they only have some small imperfections on the sides, but OS 3.1.4 recognizes them

[PeterK]

No, the OS 3.9 IconEdit can not handle OS4 or PNG icons, but my icon.library converts them automatically into the OS 3.5 ColorIcon format. And of course, ColorIcons have no alpha channel and only up to 255 colors.

The OS 3.1.4 icon.library v45.22 won't load them into IconEdit.

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Yes but the strange thing that saved the icon in the OS 4.1 format, as you can see, i written AFA and the icon is not a Dual-PNG otherwise Dopus4 would have seen it as a PNG image, even OS 4.1 sees that icon perfectly .

[AMIGASYSTEM]

Originally Posted by PeterK

The OS 3.1.4 icon.library v45.22 won't load them into IconEdit.

You have arrived second

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=96128

[PeterK]

Maybe that is another side effect of your AfA + icon_lib.exe + icon.library + RemLib crap.

Edit: I've just tested that and the OS 3.9 IconEdit never saves in the OS4 format, not even under your strange configuration. It's only another of Carlo's fairytales ...

Did you see my "Icon Format Change" requester when saving from IconEdit or not? Did you really make any modifications (edited) the icon images and were these changes also saved?

Sorry Carlo, but the 3.1.4 IconEdit is the old one from OS 3.1 which can only handle planar icon images.