Topic       : Documentation for Thing
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Introduction: Thing and Alice                                         Thing

Alice (ALl IConify Enabler) is an iconifying utility, programmed by Sven 
Kopacz (Sven_Kopacz@LB.maus.de) which allows most programs running under 
operating systems that offer iconifying (such as  MagiC v3 and up, 
MultiTOS/AES 4.1, N.AES, Geneva) to be iconified -- even if the 
applications do not support iconification; examples are PacShell, 
TreeView, Pure C etc.

Alice adds 'Iconify' buttons to windows of such applications, if desired. 
On clicking such a button, Alice iconifies the window automatically -- 
without involving the program concerned! To my surprise the whole thing 
works very well -- one can even add iconifying to Pure C this way :)

The one remaining problem for Alice was to decide which icon to give the 
iconified window and it seemed sensible to allow Alice access to the Thing 
icon management routines. After much discussion a very simple but stable 
new protocol has been developed, which is also available for use by other 
programs.

Technical information is available from ⇨ Protocols, Thing internal.

Result: If Alice is installed it automatically uses the Thing icons -- no 
special environmental variables or configuration is required!
Here's an example of what this can look like: