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I think that we talk at cross purposes now ... Sorry, I should better have quoted your first statement before to make clear what I'm referring to.
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------------------ The second point was clear already: the missing checkered transparency under the mouse pointer on TrueColor screens. Ok. But I just noticed another old bug (since #408) in the color inversion of selected old icons with only one image, the blue gets lost. Last edited by PeterK; 09 January 2022 at 17:32. |
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Another small update for TC020 and FastWB to 51.4.560:
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In order to reduce the amount of data that has to be transferred between the CPU and the gfx-card over the slow Zorro bus, the rectangles of TrueColor images are made as small as possible by removing the outer parts, which are nearly 100 % transparent, when alpha is 0-2. This was already implemented for ColorIcons on RTG. Maybe the icon dragging and scrolling are becoming a little bit smoother on slow systems with gfx-cards? On OS 3.2+ it's recommended to use TC020. The FastWB version can avoid some useless refreshes on WB v44-45. "Tricky Drag°n" is still WIP. All Feedback is welcome. I've got two emails from you, but all my replies are blocked or rejected again. Maybe this update can improve the dragging on P96 a bit, especially on Zorro II systems, but you should also check your P96 settings. You also have a PM as reply to your first email. Last edited by PeterK; 15 January 2022 at 00:35. |
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Sorry, I just noticed in some tests that I made a stupid last minute bug in #560 when I finally removed some instructions from the code, which has the effect that the optimization doesn't work anymore as it did before. Now, I will check the code carefully before I update it again.
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19 January 2022, 11:41 | #3884 |
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I've been using 560 without any noticeable issues (not that it helps you any now )
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Thanks for confirming that "Tricky Drag°n" works on P96 3.2.2 and OS 3.2.1. The "issue" of 560 was that accidentally nothing has really changed for user, the new optimization was ignored by a mistake in the code. But it's already working again, even a bit better now than before. I just don't want to release it, because there are still some other things on my ToDo list, that are waiting for a solution, like the missing transparency for the dragged icon under the mouse pointer, that hexaae would like to get back.
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20 January 2022, 16:01 | #3886 |
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Another small update for TC020, FastWB and HalfBright to 51.4.561:
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The icon under the mouse pointer becomes transparent again now in "Tricky Drag°n" as usually done on WB. In order to reduce the amount of data that has to be transferred between the CPU and the gfx-card over the slow Zorro bus, the rectangles of TrueColor images are made as small as possible by removing the outer parts, which are nearly 100 % transparent, when alpha is 0-2. This was already implemented for ColorIcons on RTG. The rectangles of the first images (unselected icons) can be reduced by 20-40%, but the 2. images only < 5%, because the glow effect covers most of the free space. On OS 3.2+ it's recommended to use TC020. The FastWB version can avoid some useless refreshes on WB v44-45. "Tricky Drag°n" is still WIP. All Feedback is welcome. Last edited by PeterK; 18 March 2022 at 19:07. |
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21 January 2022, 23:26 | #3888 | |
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24 January 2022, 13:07 | #3889 | |
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News: There is a new icon plugin Iconic 1.0 by Airsoft Softwair available for Hollywood 9, which supports several icon formats:
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29 January 2022, 09:20 | #3891 |
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Thank you Peter for the new update, it's great to see the icon again when dragging
Working great on A4000 + RTG on OS3.2.1. |
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Thanks jbenam!
Good to know that at least some users are happy with the latest updates, although there are still a few things left that need to be improved or fixed. And the new TrueColor dragging with AlphaChannel isn't working under DOpus5 or CGX4 yet. I'm looking for better solutions, but don't know if it's possible at all. @hexaae Quote:
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And with clipboard sharing you can work at the same time with IconEdit (OS3.9) and PPaint exchanging icon images between the two the good old AmigaOS way of working... ;-) In signature some sshots of my Workbench with ColorIcons Glowicons style I use and some of my icons... |
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I have a little confusion. Which version is more recent, 46.4.556 or 46.4.559?
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14 February 2022, 12:18 | #3895 |
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As stated in the Readme of the Aminet release, #556 is not new. It was already available here at EAB and at A1k.org end of last year for download. But #556 has at least a little workaround for missing DiskObject signatures, because some programs didn't supply that and thus failed with #555.
#556 also seems to be the most stable version at the moment, although no software is ever free of bugs. It still has a problem with ProcessIcon and my IconMixer, which is fixed in #559. It also has a very small memory leak, as reported by a user, but the memory leak in #557 and up is even bigger. I'm still working on a fix, the bigger one is fixed already (internally, not published yet). The code for the new TrueColor dragging is still under construction, so all the test versions here (#557-#561) are in an experimental state, just uploaded in order to collect feedback and get bug-reports from the users. It's impossible for me to test new features with every possible system configuration. "Tricky Drag°n" will take a lot more time before it's finished and stable enough. The next test version may come with DOpus5 support, but nothing new for CGX4 yet. |
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Update to icon.library 46.4.562, 47.-1.562, 51.4.562, 1. page (no new HAM versions):
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"Tricky Drag°n" now also works under DOpus 5.x on P96 RTG screens without using "Custom Dragging Routines", even with DOpus 5.9x, but not under Aros 68k or CGX4. "DOnoColorMapping" is always activated for TrueColor versions now, so this option is not required anymore. Only the dragged icon under the mouse pointer appears half-transparent as usual on Workbench, all the other icons will remain opaque. On DOpus5 this was a random selection before how the transparency was spreaded. A bug in IconControlA(GetImageData2) has been fixed. Removed some dead 680x0 code from TrueColor versions. FastWB will use do_ToolWindow only as Workbench task, and checks ib_ActiveWindow for possible NULL-pointers. Color mapping checks for *ColorMap changes in order to refresh the cache, and will reject wrong icon screens. Until now only any changes of NShared were monitored. There are separate RTG flags for WB and other screens. Some memory leaks have been fixed for the WB refresh. "DiskMagic" will also be set for GetDiskObject(NULL). A ReadDiskObject Low-Memory bug has been fixed and the Open() call for icons is done prior to mem-allocation in order to avoid a reversal in case of missing icons. There are no new features added to the 680x0 versions, but some existing known bugs have been fixed. Updates for HAM6, HAM8, CGX4 and Aros may come later ... Last edited by PeterK; 19 March 2022 at 12:30. |
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Peter what is the difference between "icon.library ArosHalfBright" and "icon.library Aros"?
I don't notice any difference on my AROS One 68k |
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Hi Carlo, the difference is just visible for OS4 and PNG icons with only one image. Usually, the second image was automatically generated with a simple glow-effect. But there was a special request of a user some months ago to substitute this glow-effect by creating darker copies of the first image instead for the selected icons. That's what the "HalfBright" versions are doing now.
I still prefer my ugly self-made glowing more than these dark looking icons, but it's up to the user what he likes ... |
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Ok perfect, with the "icon.library ArosHalfBright" now the native MorphOS and AROS icons look good with a dark shade.
With the icon.library Aros standard instead the native MorphOS and AROS icons look like an old OS 3.5/3.9 style Glow. not qualitative on RTG screens. I enclose screenshot that shows the difference mentioned! Last edited by AMIGASYSTEM; 19 July 2022 at 18:47. |
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