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On 18-Mar-96 20:16:04 (Msg ID: <9603180816.AA001gb@innov.demon.co.uk>),
Innovision Concepts Limited wrote:
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AA>> You're missing the point. We're not talking about the icons present in
AA>> the Newicons package, but the newicons PATCH, which allows icons to have
AA>> as many colours as you like, and makes the system use shareable pens for
AA>> them. This is clearly a win. If you want, use "MWB2NI" to turn your MWB
AA>> icons into NewIcons format and then you can have MWB icons AND do
AA>> anything you like to your palette.

>OK.  This is a genuine query here.

>Just what exactly does the newicons patch do?

>The reason I ask is that I have spent the weekend trying it out and could
>find no difference (apart from those awful NewIcon icons!).

>I tried different numbers of colours for my screen, different full-colour
>backdrops, etc, and there was absolutely no visible difference.

>Now, there must be SOMETHING that it does, so my question is, just what would
>using the NI patch let me do that I cannot already do?  (Please try to be
>specific, rather than "do anythis to your pallete" - I want to understand
>just what relevance and advantages the NI hack could offer - if it IS useful,
>then I would consider using it but so far, I cannot see any benefit).

The problem with the current WB icon system is that no palette information is
incorporated into the icon.  That means that if you change your WB colours, the
icon colours will change with it.  It's really not very clever in that respect.
MagicWB does nothing to improve this.  You are stilled locked into a particular
colour scheme.  Change the WB colours and the icons change with it.  The
newicons patch attempts to improve this by storing palette information into the
icon.  At the moment, the icon information (I'm not sure how much of it) is
stored into the tooltypes (hence all that rubbish there).  What it means though
is that you can change the WB colours to your hearts content and the icon patch
will utilize the pen-sharing of OS3+ and give you the same coloured icons.  If
you really want to see the difference, try changing the WB colours and see what
happens to MagicWB and NewIcons.  The NewIcons approach is considerable better.



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<tsb>Thor 2.22, 19-Mar-96 22:01:50

How many vampires does it take to change a light bulb?  None.  They like the
dark!