From: Joseph Jones <joe_at_bumpycarrot.cjb.net>
Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:29:50 +0000

Henrik Backe wrote:

>"[IDC]Dragon" <idc-dragon_at_gmx.de> wrote in message >
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>>> There's currently no solution here for how to make particular files get
>>> custom icons in the dir browser. We could probably let the existing
>>> icons remain until we think of a system to fix this.
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>>Icon data is very small, just 6 bytes. This could be an (optional) part of
>>an entry in the extension config file. Just 12 hex digits would do the
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>job...
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>I would prefer separate icon fils that look somthing like:
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>xxxxxx
>x x
>x x
>x x
>x x
>x x
>x x
>xxxxxx
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>This would make i much easier for users change/design their own icons.
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>>Memory allocation could be an issue, we need some worst-case buffer for the
>>filetypes
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>Very true.
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>.../Henrik
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At the risk of having a ton of bricks dropped on my ass, perhaps we
could have a plug-in to create new icons? Blow an icon up to fill the
screen (so that we can have lines seperating the boxes that become the
pixels for the icon) and then use the direction buttons to move around
the image, the play button to toggle black/white. The image produced
could be written to the extensions config file in the 6-byte format
suggested.

Joe
Received on 2004-01-08