Topic       : Documentation for ThingIcn
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View Ref-FileIntroduction                                                       ThingIcn

Some of you may know the original ThingIcn that still came from Holger 
Weets. However, many people didn't like the user interface; in addition, 
that ThingIcn could not display coloured icons.

Hence the present ThingIcn was reconstructed from the ground up, based on 
foundations still from Arno Welzel, the rest done by Thomas Binder and 
Dirk Klemmt. ThingIcn was quite deliberately not integrated into Thing,
since after all ICONS.INF is not normally being altered constantly and 
Thing would otherwise just be 'inflated' needlessly.

So what can and cannot ThingIcn do?

  ∙ ThingIcn reads the files ICONS.INF and ICONS.RSC from the current 
    directory, or from the directory that is specified by the environment
    variable THINGDIR, and allows a simple way of editing the assignments
    between files, folders, drives and the icons contained therein.

  ∙ As usual, ThingIcn supports the AV Protocol -- so in a multitasking 
    environment all keyboard shortcuts of Thing can continue to be used 
    (as long as these are not assigned in ThingIcn) and all windows will 
    be registered with the AV-Server (normally Thing).

  ∙ ThingIcn does not run as a desk accessory any more! In return it
    offers some new features, such as keyboard operation, window dialogs
    etc., for instance.

  ∙ ThingIcn does not contain an icon editor! It is also not possible to
    read in icons from other resource files, or to delete icons. If there 
    is sufficient demand, it is possible that at least the reading in and 
    deletion of icons could be added in future versions... It's up to you 
    to contact the authors and make your wishes known!

Although ThingIcn belongs to Thing, it is being distributed as a separate 
archive, since the Thing archive is already on the large side, and anyway 
this permits independent updates. You can find the contact addresses in 
the hypertext for Thing. The English translation of the resource and 
hypertext has been provided by TransAction.