AmigaWorld Official AmigaDOS 2 Companion
Remap B/W: This item is well named only if you use the default Workbench colors. When selected, it turns all the color 1 dots to color 2 and all the color 2 dots to color 1. The item gets its name from the fact that black is color 1 and white is color 2 in the default Workbench palette.
Auto TopLeft: The final choice moves the image in the magnified view win dow so that the left-most, non-background color dot in the image touches the left border of the box and the top-most, non-background color dot touches the top border.
IconEdit: A Practical Example More than simply a place to create pretty pictures, the IconEditor can also provide files with icons, a valuable function. For example, using the AmigaDOS text editor, Ed, I created a file that contained the names of some picture files I wanted the Display tool (see Chapter 5) to display. I saved the file to the Utilities drawer of my System2.0 disk, giving it the name PictureList, and then exited the text editor. Because Ed does not create .info files, PictureList did not show up in the Utilities drawer when I opened it. Worse, because it didn't have an icon, I couldn't enter the Tool Type that would tell Display that PictureList was a list of picture files. IconEdit solves the problem.
When I opened IconEdit, it came up with the image of the default tool icon. I wanted the image of a project icon, so I chose the Project item from the Type menu and selected New from the Project menu. The resulting requester in formed me that "<untitled> had been changed." I selected the requester's Con tinue button, as I didn't care about the tool icon image I was erasing. The program then loaded the default project icon (see Figure 6-4). Rather than trusting my artistic talents and editing the image, I simply accessed the Save As item from the Project menu.
Save As brought up the standard Amiga file requester. I wanted to get to the Utilities directory, so I first clicked the Disks button and then selected System2.0 from the list of drives. As the requester listed the files and drawers on the System2.0 disk, I clicked once in the scroll gadget to request an alphabet ized display with the drawers below the files. I then scrolled down to the bot tom of the list, where I found and selected the Utilities drawer. Toward the bottom of the list of files in Utilities, I found PictureList. I selected it, so that it appeared in the File gadget of the requester, and then I clicked on OK. IconEdit appended a .info to the name PictureList, giving the file the name PictureList.info, and saved it to the Utilities drawer. Once it was in the same drawer as PictureList, it became that file's icon file.