Turbosoft Icon Palette.
Version 1.4 for Windows 3.x.
Copyright (c) 1992.
Jeff Franks, Sydney, Australia.
Compuserve 100026,1134.
26th August 1992.

	



	Well "Hello Again". It's a bit like that movie.....isn't it! I 
mean, how many reincarnations can you have! Well, this is Icon 
Palette's fourth.....and hopefully the last for a while. I thought 
v1.3 might have been it. But that wasn't to be.
	
	Thanks to all those people who left messages for me on 
compuserve. Without your comments and criticism's I wouldn't have 
been able to refine Icon Palette to the extent I have. As you will find 
I've included in v1.4 everything you asked for...and more. Nathaniel 
wanted to be able to set Icon palette's loction on-screen without 
having to edit icopalet.ini.You can now do that by moving the Icon Palette 
window to a new location and selecting the control menu 'Set 
Window Position' item. The next time you start Icon Palette that's 
where you'll find it.

	One very good suggestion was for those people who ran either
NDOS,4DOS or DrDos etc. Now when you shell to DOS, you will shell to 
the command interpreter you use, and not  MS-Dos's  command.com as 
before. 

	I have finally corrected the last two remaining problems in 
Icon Palette (fingers crossed). The first, was that for some people
Icon Palette would flash on the screen, disappear, and never be 
seen again. This occurred because of the way I had set up the 
options dialog box. The Startup and 'after launching a program' 
options were one in the same, although I didn't say that. This didn't
work for some setups. In v1.4 the 'startup' and 'what to 
do with Icon Palette after launching a program' options are separate.
Now you can have Icon Palette startup one way and then behave 
another after launching a program.(eg startup hidden and then 
minimize after launching a program.) 

	The second problem was leaving out the 'Iprun.exe' file.
When you launched Icon Palette by double clicking on the desktop
(ie when Icon palette wasn't already running) you lost the 
background color and couldn't use the options in the option dialog 
box.) Now, by running iprun.exe as the 'taskman.exe=' file in 
system.ini and not icopalet.exe, this doesn't happen. Iprun.exe is 
a small program (smaller than in v1.2) that launches icopalet.exe. 

	In v1.4 you will find a Bitmapped control menu. I wasn't 
sure about this one, but thought it worth a try. Let me know what 
you think!

	As an example setup, I have Icon Palette installed as my 
shell. Then I run  NDW as an autoloaded program.I have Icon Palette
set to start up hidden. When windows starts,it briefly flashes
on screen and disappears (it is still there, you just don't see it).
As well I have the Icon Palette  setup to disappear after I launch a 
program. When I double click the left mouse button on the desktop 
Icon Palette quickly pops up again.

	If you use Program Manager you might find it better to start
Icon Palette as a visible window, so you can launch a program, and 
then have it hide itself. However you setup Icon Palette, I hope
you take advantage of the 'HIDE' feature. Its great! You only have 
start Icon Palette once (this is slow), say at windows boot time. 
You  then have Icon Palette set to hide itself when you don't 
need it, reappearing quickly when you do, by double clicking the left 
mouse button on the desktop. This is quite safe as you can only ever 
run one copy of Icon Palette. Every Time you try to relaunch icon 
palette it first checks to see if it's 'hidden or minimized' somewhere.
If it is, it restores that window. Otherwise it relaunches itself.

	I hope you like version 1.4  of Icon Palette. It's still 
freeware so if find it useful..... it's yours!   



						Thanks for your 
						support,

						Jeff Franks.   




P.S. Keep an eye out for 'Toolbox' on the Boards. It should be finished in a 
     week or two.