Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    Use the rename function from the workbench and change the name of
    the disk to be one or more space characters.  Of course you lose the
    disk name, but you can always ASSIGN a name to it...
    
    - steve

    I tried something different. There is a PD program called LiftIcon
    (It's on one of the Fish disks under the title "IconTools"). It will
    allow you to move the title INTO the icon image. I re-drew my icons to
    include a "raised" platform and moved the title into the platform. I
    uploaded a file TAPE::USER2:[UPLOAD}WBSCREEN8.ZOO which contains a
    sample of this style -- perhaps you'll use this.
    

    
	Here is what I want to do. I have edited Ed's harddrive icon 
	(great icon Ed) so that the primary image shows the partition 
	number (di3:, dh7:...) and the alternate image(when clicked) 
	shows the volume label.  The normal volume label that intuition(?) 
	drops below the icon is ugly(topaz 8(?)) and in pen 1 and
	detracts from the "look" I am trying to achieve.  I want to get 
	rid of this  pen 1 label completely or color it pen 0 so it appears
        invisible.  Since I have 9 harddrive partitions the suggestion in .1 
        could prove to be a bit unwieldy, but I will try it tonight.

	I have icontools but they do not do what I want.  I think Icontools
	had a hack to change the icons colors by selecting different pen
	numbers but I could not get it to work.  
    
    	re: .2 
    	
    	Would you include your hard drive icon in WBscreen8.zoo. 
    	The icon labeled hard drive in the zoofile is your floppy icon.
    
    	ANY ideas or suggestions will be appreciated.
    
    	md
    

    Re: Harddrive Icon
    
    It is? Hummm, I'll check that. My actual Harddrive Icon is different
    that the type used in EDS_ICONS (mine is just a black square with the
    Amiga checkmark -- similar to somebody's harddrive product (GVP?)).
    I'll include it when I can.

    
    I messed around a bit and made up a harddrive (and RAM) icon which looks 
    like a push button (how original!) with the check marks and "Amiga" 
    within it.  
    
    I also tried to getting rid of the volume label, and had about the same 
    success.  Couldn't get the "fix" routine (changes colors?) to do
    anything.  I played around with the "lift" function, which works but
    seems to have a curious side effect - you can't click anywhere on the
    "lifted" label.  I tried it on a drawer icon, and had to position the 
    pointer above the text in order to activate it.
    
    While I'm thinking of it, I did something a bit out of the ordinary for
    one partition of my hardrive.  Instead of using drawer icons, I made up
    a set of door icons which open when activated. Mostly with the wife and 
    kids in mind, the premise here is that you enter a specific "room" to
    find the tools to do whatever it is you want to do.  The doors are
    labeled "Arcade" (games obviously), "Art" (Paint programs), "NewStuff"
    (test area), "Reference" (documentation, maps, Aquarium), "Sounds"
    (music/effects), "R&D" (MY play area), "Study" (educational stuff) and
    "Office" (memo's, word processors, calendar, address book etc.).  The
    effect is kind of neat, but the limit is 8 without further shrinking.
    If anyone is interested I'd be happy to make them available.
    
    								-mt

    Re: -.whatever
    
    Yeah, the icon file itself isn't there, but the IFF pictures show what
    it looks like. You could use a paint program and extract it if you
    wanted.
    
    
    Re: -.1
    
    Sounds similar to mine (pictured in the IFF file). I'd like to see it
    -- maybe I'll use yours.

    re .5:
    please upload them.  I'm always looking for neat icons and doors make
    more sense to me than drawers for directory icons.  Interesting idea.
    
    Hmm...That's got me to thinking about organizing my Amiga desktop to
    match the physical desktop at work - a pile of icons with just parts of
    them sticking out to click on.  A place for everything, and everything
    in its place - well, sort of...8^)
    
    regards,
    dennis
    

    that won't work, the workbench uses overlapping icons to indicate that
    you want do a copy.
    
    Just think of the drawers (or doors) as bins, much safer than piles
    since they don't don't fall over as often when they get too high :-)
    
    -Dave

    
    re .7:    
    
    Door and disk icons have been uploaded to TAPE::USER2:[UPLOAD] as 
    DOOR_ICONS.ZOO
    
    Hope they're useful to you...
    
    							-mt
    
    		

    I'vethought about this myself. a SIMGEN image of a desk/office in the
    background - with a phone, wastebasket, drawer, file cabinet, calendar,
    clock, calculator, notepad, terminal keyboard, modem, bookshelf icons
    scattered around. Sounds neat. The icons could all have a blank name or
    title centered in the image (via LiftIcon). 

    
    I probably would have used the LiftIcon approach on the doors had I 
    known about it in time.  As it is I spent so much time putting the names 
    on the doors (notice the perspective of the lettering changes when the 
    door opens) that I didn't feel like doing them all over.  Maybe next
    time...

You can get overlapping icons - at least for some things. In fact, if you use
intuition to "neaten" a drawer with a couple of those ugly oversize icons
people like and a collection of reasonable-sized icons, it'll overlap some for
you.

The workbench is smart enough to realize that it doesn't make sense to copy
something onto a tool or project, so it doesn't - it just let's them overlap.

You could still make the "realistic descktop" work - you just have an area
that looks like a file cabinet, and leave all the drawer icons on it. What's
on the desktop proper are all either tools or projects. Or maybe a bookcase...

Sounds kinda neat, even with that limitation.

	<mike

    
    Several issues back, Amiga Plus' disk came with a slick 'full height'
    file cabinet, where each file was an official WB drawer icon.
    
    Ed.