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[release] Iconstructor V.2
OK now, its almost ready. Unfortunately, I had to replace stylish color dialogs from previous versions with standard Windows one. Can anyone provide a screenshot how the MacOS Color Dialog looks like?
After adding libGFL features and reworking all other the size of main executable iconstr.exe has increased just by 20KB (392,5 KB totally, tho it's not final version yet). There'll be also a compressed libGFL in distribution pack, so the whole pack will be about 700KB - 1MB. Hope that's not too heavy for you.
I've also planned a bunch of new features, but they will be added in further builds. Right now I must increase the minor version number first.
Good news. I think 1mb is a pretty small size for an application that can do what it does.
Believe me, it will be much more than it is now.
And I have to specially double my own request for a Color dialog screenshot.
this board is something else is like everbody is in defense mode lol
what i said was not meant as an insult more as my opinion and what ithink about it.
Found the color picker @ www.GUIdeBookGallery.com. Heh, pretty complex thingy. Maybe next time...
Nice! Spasibo
Hello everyone!
Here's piping hot package of brand new version. I'll summarize the feature list for all those who came for the first time and for those who forgot iConstructor because of infrequent updates.
iConstructor v.2.2.0.133
released 2005-10-15
iConstructor is a program to make high-res icons from 2 images (source and overlay). Source is used as a background, and overlay is transformed and drawn upon the source. This way you can easily make your own icons for specific folders or filetypes.
Features:
- Smooth resizing, precise rotating and skewing effects for overlay
- Transparency effect for overlay
- Anti-aliased multiline text rendering with any of installed in your system TrueType fonts
- Alignment, bold, italic or underlined styles and alpha-blending for text
- Text shadow: text can have a blurred, semitransparent, coloured shadow.
- New skinned Mac'ish interface, supporting XP visual styles as well
- Output to PNGs with alpha-channel
- ICO file writing ability (all my thanks to AndreasV!!!)
- Drag-and-Drop capabilitites
- 100+ formats of images to import from
- Multipage images are supported for import
License
This program is free for non-commercial usage. If you are going to distribute the icons made with iConstructor, you may do it only for free and only in case you mention iConstructor in accompanying readme/license/fileid/description. Commercial usage and military usage of this program and results of its work is prohibited. Author is not responsible for any harm and damages this program can bring being installed, uninstalled, used or misused. You use it at your own risk.
System requirements
OS: Win9x, Win2k, WinXP or later with GDI+ redistributable installed (not included in distributon package; not necessary for WinXP, Win2k3);
DESKTOP: 1024x768 32bit recommended;
Attention! Please read the readme carefully!
The .icns import feature doesn't work :slant:
Tried the same file with Axialis IW, and it was successful. I get the following error in iConstructor:
"While importing file C:Documents and SettingsNC1089DesktopDevice Floppy.icns
libgfl reported:
Unknown format."
I'm using Windows XP SP1...um, is there anything else you need to know?
Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.
-NC
P.S: Everything else looks good though! Very comprehensive.
The .icns import feature doesn't work :slant:Tried the same file with Axialis IW, and it was successful. I get the following error in iConstructor:
"While importing file C:Documents and SettingsNC1089DesktopDevice Floppy.icns
libgfl reported:
Unknown format."
I'm using Windows XP SP1...um, is there anything else you need to know?
Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.
-NC
P.S: Everything else looks good though! Very comprehensive.
Thanks.
About the bug: Please read the readme. It's the GFL library error, I can't do anything with it. Everything that is reported by libgfl isn't in my defence. Here's the screenshot, my copy here works fine. This computer DOESN'T have gfl sdk installed or what. Sorry.
P.S. Gonna testit more on monday. At work I have a nice testing machine - a notebook w/ WXP Home SP1 /w anything else
Ah well...tried a different libgfl (twice the file size), but still didn't work. Shame :slant:
Nice update, though.
-NC
P.S: Sorry about not reading the readme. I started it but didn't finish, if it makes you feel better 
OK, already found a few minor bugs, which were present since early 2.x versions (AND NOBODY TOLD ME!!!). There'll be an update soon.
EDIT: Tested the new version on another machine running bare WXP Home. Everything's OK. But the Nightcrawler's icns files won't open anyway, just like any other icns extracted directly from Mac-oriented zips. Those icns files seem to have obviously different inner format not recognized by current version of LibGFL
Here's a new skin. Not the best I can, just a five minutes of relaxing work in Photopaint. It's iTunes. Soon I'll post the Aqua skin update
How do we change sjins?
replace the files in the skindefault folder
oh ok I thought maybe he added a way to change them thanks
oops I didnt see the update... downloading. Thanks again 
Here's the promised Aqua skin update. Stripes are more subtle and the whole look fits most Panther themes. New format and some changes in this update increase the performance of iC2.2 skinning engine.
Thanks for the updated skin
i have a req feature can u allow icons to be sent out as pngs? and also a drag n drop function? instead of browse
PNG saving(if you mean that) is used by default. DaD is partially supported (try drag the files onto the Source and Overlay panes). If you ask for more, please, explain what you want
A reflection effect option would be nice (reflect the overlay image).
You mean flip it horizontally or vertically? Doesn't the negative sizing work (width = -64)?
Thank you so much RIMMER, really one can not thank you enough for it.
hey,
sorry I didn't read the whole thread, but when I hit the button to hide any category, it resizes the window - but also in the width! So if I choose to hide three categories, I haven't access to half of the content of the interface 