Short: Toolmanager Newicon Template And More. Author: Dennis Jacobson/JAKE Productions Uploader: Dennis Jacobson (jacobd thevision net) Type: pix/icon Architecture: generic The The The The The The The The The The The _______ _______ _______ __________ ___ ____ _____ _______ / ___ \ / ___ \ / ____//___ ___// // \_/ // ____/\ / /\_/ // /\_/ // /\___\\__/ /\__/ // _ _ // /\___\/ / /_// // /_// // / ___ / / / / // / \__// // /_/ / ___// ___ // / / \ / / / / // / / \_/ // ___/\ / /\ \ / /\_/ // /__/ / / / / / / // / / / // /___\/ /__/ /\__\/__/ //__//_______/ / /__/ / /__//__/ / /__//_______/\ \__\/ \__\__\/ \__\\_______\/ \__\/ \__\\__\/ \__\\_______\/ Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop The Toolmanger Newicon Template This template is based on my workbench screen. I use only Newicons. MWB icons I passionately dislike. There is no standardization of size. They vary from huge to very small. MWB may have many fine attributes, but for me their deficits outweigh their qualities. This template only works for Amiga with OS 3.0+. It requires the Prefs utility WBPattern. WbPatterns allows selection of a backdrop picture on the workbench and for windows as well. The most you can hope for with OS under 3.0 is patterns. If you have a standard backdrop picture, temporarily replace it with this one. Load Toolmanger and configure as normal. Move your Newicon to cover the desired red block. Continue until you are done. Save and then change your WBPattern backdrop to what you normally use. Reboot and see the finished results. Since Toolmanger has a test function, you might use it to insure the alignments are correct. Newicons do have some variation in size. Usually, no more than a pixel or two. This grid will accommodate 72 Newicons. My drive icons are upper left down and marked with a "D". You may have more or less drives. Position your icons anyway you want in the grid. Included is a text file with the icon positions indicated per my system. I use this whenever I change icon positions or add new icons to the grid. It is a good reference. The relative pattern is 51 horizontal by 62 vertical. The vertical is larger to accommodate the icon name. If you do not use icon names it can be tightened. I do not use Toolmanager docks. I have nothing against docks. I just do not like them. I do something else which may be of interest to you. I like my drive icons to appear where I want them to be. For this purpose I have two directories in my S directory. They are named Bootup and Drives. Bootup contains scripts. Drives contains the disk icons for my devices. Here is why. Do the following: 1. Position your disk icons wherever you desire. Do not use the window Clean Up to do this (unless you like the Clean Up locations). Next, use window Snapshot All to write the icon positions. 2. Load up your favorite disk manager (DirOpus or whatever) and create the directories Bootup and Drives in your S Directory. 3. Now, for each drive, rename its disk.info to your drive designation, ie, DH0.info, DH1.info, DH2.info, and so on. Copy each one of these renamed disk infos into the S/Drives directory. 4. Now create a script for the S/Bootup directory to copy these renamed disk infos to the workbench. I have included my S/Bootup scripts. There is more than one. I have changed the disk icon positions several times, and keep the scripts just in case I change my mind and want to go back to an older pattern. You will find these scripts and my disk icons in the S directory as part of this archive. Play with this awhile and let me know if it works. Or use the method to develop some uniform way of fixing icon positions yourself. Whatever you do...enjoy your Amiga. Could be the best is yet to come. Suggestion: Download Aminet/biz/dbase/F-BASEV2.0.LHA. Try it out. You will find it has many good uses. Dennis Jacobson JAKE Productions ------------------------------------------------------------------------- __ Dennis Jacobson (Jake) / \ /|oo \ E-Mail: jacobd@thevision.net (_| /_) __`@/_ \ _ Better Buy Cow Paint? | | \ \\ | JAKE | \\ )) JAKE Productions (1997) |__ _ | / \// _//|| _\ / (_/(_|(____/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------