| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
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Has anyone had success using 'MakeIcon'? Whenever I choose an image file, I get the error: 'Image too large', even if I reduce the image to 2 bit planes (using DPaint). I did notice that the size of the file didn't change much despite the reduction. Is this a bug in 'MakeIcon'? Any workarounds? thanks, Peter
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 5125.1 | IFF Brush Files | ULTRA::KINDEL | Bill Kindel @ LTN1 | Thu Oct 17 1991 10:11 | 16 |
Re .0:
> Has anyone had success using 'MakeIcon'?
> Whenever I choose an image file, I get the error:
> 'Image too large', even if I reduce the image to 2 bit planes
> (using DPaint). I did notice that the size of the file didn't
> change much despite the reduction. Is this a bug in 'MakeIcon'?
> Any workarounds?
I use IE (Icon Edit from FF377) instead of MakeIcon (FF255), but to
each his own. I suspect your problem is the difference between an IFF
'image' file and and IFF 'brush'. DPaint produces both. The whole
screen is stored as an 'image', which would certainly be too big to use
in an icon. Instead, you should bound each icon image to define it as
a brush and save each in a separate file. Then you should be able to
import the file(s) into MakeIcon.
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| 5125.2 | thanks | TOOK::KEEGAN | Peter Keegan | Thu Oct 17 1991 11:29 | 4 |
Thanks, Bill, I'll try the brush approach and check out IconEdit.
-peter
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