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Icon Explorer 1.2 and Icon Engine 1.2 Released

DIGG IT!     0 Comments Published Tuesday, January 20, 2004 at 9:45 AM .

I have updated the Icon Engine and added format changes to Icon Explorer 1.2. \0

Version 1.2 Changes:
1. Icon Format supports unlimited colors
2. Icons Format supports a header (name, created, copyright, x,y)
3. Icons Format supports positioning via x, y header properties

The format design changes made the engine simpler and thus much faster at runtime. In basic testing the performance improved about 30% on average. In additon the format changes make format conversion easy, including ICO, MAC Icons, GIF, PNG, JPEG. Also the changes allow for icons to carry header information inside the icon format. Icon Format 1.1 is not compatible with Icon Engine 1.2 but it is easy to convert with a text editor or Icon Explorer.

Here is an example of the pixel shifting with cursors via the icon header x, y. Notice the cursor snaps to a pre-defined location on the pointer not the (0,0) coordinate:

source code

You can also easily override the default header setting by passing a coordinate during drawIcon:

//draw an icon and shift it horizontally -10 and vertically -12
_level0.myIcon.drawIcon(icon,-10,-12)

Icon Explorer Central Installer


Special thanks to Mario Klingemann for helping with the format. Thanks Mario! ;)

Cheers,

ted ;)

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