Copyright: Copyright © 1991-1994  Harald Pitro


IcoShow Help Index

Menu Commands

File Menu

Library Menu

Icons Menu

Options Menu

Window Menu

Help Menu

Speed Menu of Icons

Speed Menu of Windows

Dialog Boxes

Open

Select Files

Write Library

Print Icons

Select Icons

Exclude Icons

Confirm before

Overwrite

Edit with...

Rename Icon

Basic Settings

Select Window

Registration

Print Order Form

About IcoShow

Others

Status Line

Pattern

Install Icons to Progman

Dragging icons with the mouse


File Menu
File Menu Commands

In the File menu you can open directories to select the icons existing there, print selected icons, create a new icon library or exit IcoShow.

Open

Select Files

Print Icons

Exit IcoShow


Library Menu
Library Menu Commands

In the Library menu you find all commands to maintain libraries.

New Library

Open Library

Save Library

Delete Library

Undo all changes

Split Library

Split all Libraries

Join Library

Join all Libraries


Icons Menu
Icons Menu Commands

Use this menu to determine the function of the left mouse button and to select the icons to be used.

Copy

Move

Default Copy/Move

Rename

Edit

Select

Exclude


Options Menu
Options Menu Commands

Set options for IcoShow.

Confirm

Edit with...

Repair Icons

Exclude bad Icons

Emphasize multiple images

Quick Delete

Quick Search

Save Settings On Exit

Save Settings Now


Window Menu
Window Menu Commands

Use this menu to arrange and size windows within IcoShow.

Cascade

Tile

Arrange Icons

Minimize Windows

Maximize Windows

Select Window

Close All

Refresh Window

Refresh all Windows


Help Menu
Help Menu Commands

Look here for informations about registration, ordering and the present use of heap and resources.

Registration

Print Order Form

Set Register Information

About IcoShow


Speed Menu of Icons

If you click on an icon with the right mouse button, IcoShow displays the Speed Menu. In this menu you can select another image if the icon has more than one. You can select the procedures available for this icon, such as exclude, delete, edit or rename. Only the possible Speed will be displayed. In example the method "rename" is not available if you click on an icon from a library.

Exclude Icon

Delete Icon

Rename Icon

Edit Icon


Speed Menu of Windows

If you click on a title line of a window or an minimized window with the right mouse button, IcoShow displays the window speed menu. This menu contains the methods availabe for the window:

Select Files

Exclude bad Icons

Emphasize multiple images

Refresh Window

Print Icons

New Library

Open Library

Save Library

Delete Library

Undo all changes

Split Library

Split all Libraries

Join Library

Join all Libraries

Sort by Icon Name

Sort by File Name

Sort by Image


File Menu - Open
Open

Add a new window (or new windows) with the icons existing in a given directory. A dialog box will open to allow you to browse for the directory wanted and to check whether subdirectories and/or icon libraries (...) are to be included and whether IcoShow is to look for and display icon names found in some libraries.

Hint:	If the directory does not exist, IcoShow will create it.

See also:	File Menu

Open Dialog Box


File Menu - Select Files
Select Files

The "Open" command lets you select directories and types of icons, you wish to read. This command shows you a dialog box with all files including icons from the current directory. You can choose all files or a single library to use.

See also:	File Menu

Select Files Dialog Box

Speed Menu of Windows


File Menu - Print Icons
Print Icons

This command prints the selected icons in the current window on selected paper with any matrix, ink-jet or laser printer. You may also print in color if your printer can handle the output. The number of printed icons per sheet depends on the printer's resolution.

See also:	File Menu

Speed Menu of Windows


File Menu - Exit IcoShow
Exit IcoShow

Use Hotkeys Alt-F4 to exit IcoShow directly.

If the option Save Settings On Exit (Options Menu) has been selected, IcoShow saves all settings including desktop in ICOSHOW.INI within the directory of IcoShow.Exe.

See also:  File Menu


Library Menu - New Library
New Library

Transfers the selected icons from either the current window or all windows into a library. Supported library types are  DLL/NIL/ICL.

You can put more than 2,700 icons into such a library. But if you intent to use the library later with Window's program manager or with some other icon managers, you should not include more than 1,200 icons. IcoShow will issue a warning.

See also:	Library Menu

Create Library Dialog Box

Speed Menu of Windows


Library Menu - Open Library
Open Library

Contrary to the "Open" command of the "File Menu" this command opens a single library within a new window. In this library window you can delete and rename icons!

All changes of the library will be effective if you save the library. If you close the window, IcoShow will inform you about unsaved changes. All changes will be preserved until you save or delete the library (after closing IcoShow, too).

You cannot hold icons from a library within a directory window and a library window simultaneous. If you open a library window and the library exists within an opened directory window, the icons will be moved to the library window. After you have closed the library window, you can refresh the directory window to show the icons again.

See also:	Library Menu

Create Library Dialog Box

Speed Menu of Windows


Library Menu - Save Library
Save Library

The library within current window will be saved. After this successes, the temporary library will be destroyed. You can change the name of the library within the dialog box to hold the old version. For more details about the dialog box see chapter 6.

See also:	Library Menu

Create Library Dialog Box

Speed Menu of Windows


Library Menu - Delete Library
Delete Library

This command deletes the library in the current window and the temporary library, too.

See also:	Library Menu

Create Library Dialog Box

Speed Menu of Windows


Library Menu - Delete Library
Undo all changes

All changes since last save within the current library window will be undone (deleted icons will be undeleted, too). Please note: this runs in library windows only.

See also:	Library Menu

Create Library Dialog Box

Speed Menu of Windows


Library Menu - Split Library
Split Library

If the icons from the current window comes from a library, this command allows you to move all icons from this directory window to a new library window.

See also:	Library Menu

Create Library Dialog Box

Speed Menu of Windows


Library Menu - Split all  Libraries
Split all Libraries

This command creates for each library from the current directory window a new library window and moves the icons to these windows. They will not be displayed within the directory window.

See also:	Library Menu

Create Library Dialog Box

Speed Menu of Windows


Library Menu - Join Library
Join Library

The icons from the current library window will be moved to their directory window and the library window will be closed.

See also:	Library Menu

Create Library Dialog Box

Speed Menu of Windows


Library Menu - Join all Libraries
Join all Libraries

All icons from library windows which belong to the current directory window will be moved to the directory window and the library windows will be closed.

See also:	Library Menu

Create Library Dialog Box

Speed Menu of Windows


Icons Menu - Copy Icons
Copy

You can drag specific icons or icons symbolizing a minimized window containing icons to a destination window using the mouse. Place cursor on icon, press down the left mouse button, then drag the icon to its destination and release the mouse button.

If this option is checked, the icon(s) will be copied, not moved.

See also:	Icons Menu

Speed Menu of Icons

Move

Default Copy/Move

Basic Settings Dialog Box


Icons Menu - Move Icons
Move

You can drag specific icons or icons symbolizing a minimized window containing icons to a destination window using the mouse. Place cursor on icon, press down the left mouse button, then drag the icon to its destination and release the mouse button.

If this option is checked, the icon(s) will be moved, not copied. This means that the icon files in the source window will be deleted after copying. Within directory windows Icons from libraries (Exe/Dll/Nil/Icl) will not be deleted, but copied.

If the source window is empty after moving icons, you will be prompted for deletion of the directory.

Hint :	Icons with identical names in the source and destination directories will not be deleted because they will not be moved.

See also:	Icons Menu

Speed Menu of Icons

Copy

Default Copy/Move

Basic Settings Dialog Box


Icons Menu - Default Copy/Move Icons
Default Copy/Move

You can choose if you want to copy or to move while dragging the icon(s). Use the same keys as in File Manager to switch between copy and move:

Key to	Source and Destination are

on the same drive	on different drives

Copy	Ctrl

Move	Shift

IcoShow will show you if the symbol is copied or moved within the status line and it will show or hide the source.

See also:	Icons Menu

Speed Menu of Icons

Copy

Move

Basic Settings Dialog Box


Icons Menu - Rename Icons
Rename

If this option is checked, you can rename icons by a double clicking them with the mouse or by pushing the Return key. Icons cannot be renamed and moved at the same time.

If you wish to sort the icons in the current window after the renaming is done, check the sort button.

You cannot rename icons in libraries.

See also:	Icons Menu

Speed Menu of Icons

Edit

Basic Settings Dialog Box


Icons Menu - Edit
Edit

If this option is checked, a double click with the mouse or the Return key will run the command under Edit with...  for the icon selected. If the editor chosen is capable of command line processing, the icon will be opened and displayed for further processing. If  not, you will still have to open the icon you wish to alter.

See also:	Icons Menu

Speed Menu of Icons

Rename

Basic Settings Dialog Box


Icons Menu - Select Icons
Select

If you check this command, a dialog box will be presented for you to enter a Pattern to select icons from the contents of the Current Window to be displayed exclusively (and for all other windows also).

See also:	Icons Menu

Exclude


Icons Menu - Exclude Icons
Exclude

If you check this command, a dialog box will be presented for you to enter a Pattern to exclude icons from the displayed contents of the Current Window (and for all other windows also).

See also:	Icons Menu

Select


Options Menu - Confirm
Confirm

If you click on this menu item, IcoShow will display a dialog box where you can choose the actions you wish to confirm and which ones IcoShow shall perform automatically:

Delete icons	If you delete an icon (or a minimized window that contains icons) using the Del key, IcoShow will prompt you to confirm. If this option isn't checked, there is no prompt.

Delete empty windows	Normally if a window doesn't contain any icons after delete or move, IcoShow will close this window automatically. If this option is checked, IcoShow will prompt you before closing the empty window.

Delete empty directories	Normally if a directory doesn't contain any file after delete or move, IcoShow will prompt you to delete the directory. If this option isn't checked, IcoShow will delete the directory without a warning.

Overwrite icons	Normally if IcoShow finds an icon with the same name in the destination directory while copying or moving, it will skip this icon. If this option is checked, IcoShow will prompt you to overwrite this icon (and all the following) or to skip.

See point 6  to find the description of the dialog box.

See also:	Options Menu

Basic Settings Dialog Box


Options Menu - Edit with ...
Edit with ...

Here you can enter a command line to process a chosen icon. Type the complete command line to start the icon editor of your choice without the icon's name. That will be added when you double click the mouse or press the Return key and if the Edit option in Icons menu is checked.

If the editor chosen is capable of command line processing, the icon will be opened and presented for editing automatically. If not, only the program will be started and you will have to manually open the icon to be edited. Further procedure depends upon the editor itself. Do not forget to save the changes made!

If you select an icon from a library to edit, IcoShow extracts the icon from the library and writes it to a temporary ico file (you see those name within the editor). Only if the icon file has the same size after editing, it can be rewritten to the library. In case you change the number of colors or images, IcoShow prompts you to delete the temporary ico file (if you do so, all changes will be lost).

If the  icon has been changed by the selected program, it will be reloaded and redisplayed on exit.

Hint :	Do not use programs changing file structures on disks.

See also:  Options Menu


Options Menu - Repair Icons
Repair Icons

Older icon files may contain bugs (the icon's upper border is truncated). You can have repaired these icon files by checking this option. Bugs in libraries will not be removed.

See also:  Options Menu

Basic Settings Dialog Box


Options Menu - Exclude bad Icons
Exclude bad Icons

Some ICO files and libraries contain incorrect images. If this option is checked, bad symbols will be excluded from displaying. If this option is not checked, IcoShow will show a question symbol instead of the bad icon.

See also:	Options Menu

Speed Menu of Windows

Basic Settings Dialog Box


Options Menu - Emphasize multiple Images
Emphasize multiple images

Some ICO files contain more than one image. Check this option to emphasize these icons so you can find it quick. IcoShow shows all images within the Speed menu of the icon.

See also:	Options Menu

Speed Menu of Icons

Speed Menu of Windows

Basic Settings Dialog Box


Options Menu - Quick Delete Icons
Quick Delete

You normally delete icons with the Del key. After pressing this key you will be prompted if you really wish to delete the icon.

If you want to delete icons fast however, check this option. You can then delete icons simply by dragging them out of the screen. You will not be prompted, the icon or all icons selected in the current window will be deleted!

See also:	Options Menu

Basic Settings Dialog Box


Options Menu - Quick Search Icons
Quick Search

You can find an icon by using the scroll bar or by cursor keys. If you want to find an icon quickly by name, check this option. You may then simply type a name to find matching icons. IcoShow will locate these and display successively. If no icons matches, the search string will be deleted automatically. Otherwise you will have to delete it yourself.

You can use the following characters:

Letters/digits/./_ 	normal characters

? 	stands for any single character

* 	stands for any number of characters

Space 	deletes the string

Backspace 	deletes the last character in the string

You can see the current entered string in the Status Line.

See also:	Options Menu

Basic Settings Dialog Box


Options Menu - Save Settings On Exit
Save Settings On Exit

If you check this option, IcoShow saves the current settings of all options and the desktop on exit in the file ICOSHOW.INI in the IcoShow directory. If missing it, will be created by IcoShow automatically.

Hint :	A change of this option will always be saved to the INI file on exit.

See also:	Options Menu

Basic Settings Dialog Box


Options Menu - Save Settings Now
Save Settings Now

Use this option or type Alt-Shift-F4 to save all settings including desktop while IcoShow is running (in this case the option "Save Settings On Exit" should not be checked).

See also:	Options Menu


Window Menu - Cascade
Cascade

If you activate this option, all opened windows within IcoShow will be shown as a Cascade.

Hotkey:  Shift-F5

See also:	Window Menu

Tile

Basic Settings Dialog Box


Window Menu - Tile
Tile

If you activate this option, all opened windows within IcoShow will be tiled. You can see all windows displayed now.

Hotkey:  Shift-F4

See also:	Window Menu

Cascade

Basic Settings Dialog Box


Window Menu - Arrange minimized Window
Arrange Icons

Choose this command to arrange all minimized windows at the bottom of the IcoShow desktop according to Windows' settings. The windows will not be sorted by name.

See also:  Window Menu


Window Menu - Minimize Windows
Minimize Windows

If you choose this command, all windows within IcoShow will be minimized and arranged in alphabetic order at the bottom of the IcoShow desktop. If you have created many windows, use this command and the command Maximize Windows to rearrange all windows.

If this option is activated, new directories, respectively windows, will be shown minimized.

See also:	Window Menu


Window Menu - Maximize Windows
Maximize Windows

If you choose this command, all minimized windows will be shown in default size and arranged in alphabetic order according to the tile or cascade option.

See also:	Window Menu

Minimize Windows

Cascade

Tile


Window Menu - Select Window
Select Window

The following dialog box will help you to select a window quickly or to calculate the number of icons which you wish to write to a library.

See also:	Window Menu

New Library Dialog Box


Window Menu - Close all Windows
Close All

Use this command to close all open windows at once. Upon closing IcoShow tries to release a maximum of heap space and resources.

See also:  Window Menu


File Menu - Refresh Window
Refresh Window

Choose this option if you wish to read icons and libraries from current directory again. Use this if you have changed the content of the directory with a file manager while IcoShow is running.

Hotkey:	F5

See also:	File Menu

Speed Menu of Windows


File Menu - Refresh all Windoww
Refresh all Windows

Choose this option if you wish to read  icons and libraries from all processed directories again.

Hotkey:	Ctrl+F5

See also:	File Menu

Speed Menu of Windows


Help Menu - Registration
Registration

The author's hints for registering and how to contact him.

See also:	Help Menu

Print Order Form


Help Menu - Print Order Form
Print Order Form

If you wish to order a license for IcoShow, you can fill in the form online and print it from here. Switch on your printer!

After printing the form is not saved to disk. After you pressed the OK button you will have to fill it in anew to print another copy.

If you fill in the EMail address (or the network path), I will send you a message after I have a new version on CompuServe.

Please use payment per VISA or Mastercard if you are not from Germany. If you decide to do so, IcoShow displays a dialog box to prompt you for the Card Number and the Release Date.

See also:	Help Menu

Registration

About IcoShow


Help Menu - Set Register Information
Set Register Information

After you have registered your copy, you receive a password. In the following dialog box you must enter your full name (like "Gustav Hackendahl") and the received password. If the password contains spaces, you must enter the spaces too.

After you have filled in your name and the password, IcoShow writes the information to the INI file ("Registered=" and "Password="). It does not check the entered information now!

See also:	Help Menu

Registration

About IcoShow


Help Menu - About IcoShow
About IcoShow

Use this to display information on copyright and the present use of heap and resources.

See also:  Help Menu


Speed Menu of Icons- Exclude Icon
Exclude Icon

Choose this option if you wish to exclude the current icon from further processing. You can select this icon again if you change the criteria for selecting and/or excluding icons (Select/Exclude within Icons Menu) or if you choose the menu point Refresh Window from File Menu!

See also:  Speed Menu of Icons


Speed Menu of Icons- Delete Icon
Delete Icon

Choose this option if you wish to delete icons from disk too. Within directory windows you cannot delete icons from libraries. These will be deleted from display only.

See also:  Speed Menu of Icons


Speed Menu of Icons- Rename Icon
Rename Icon

If you choose this option, you will be prompted for a new name of the icon. Within directory windows you cannot rename icons from libraries directly, however.

Check the  "Sort" box if you wish to sort the display in the current window after renaming. The icon will be displayed then at its proper place within the window according to its new name.

See also:  Speed Menu of Icons


Speed Menu of Icons- Edit Icon
Edit Icon

If you choose this option, IcoShow will run the program from Edit with.

See also:  Speed Menu of Icons


Speed Menu of Windows - Sort by Icon Name
Sort by Icon Name

Activate this option to sort the icons within the current window by the icon names. If an icon from a library has no name, it will be sorted by the library name and the order within the library.

This is the default sort order.

Hauptpunkt:  Speed Menu of Windows


Speed Menu of Windows - Sort by File Name
Sort by File Name

Use this option to sort the icons within the current window by their file names. Icons from libraries will be sorted and displayed by the library name and the order within the library.

Hauptpunkt:  Speed Menu of Windows


Speed Menu of Windows - Sort by Image
Sort by Image

Activate this option to sort the icons from the current window by their images. After sorting duplicate (and some similar) icons will be displayed side by side. Now you can find duplicate icons simply. Use the option "Emphasize multiple images" from "Options Menu" before you delete icons, because icon files can hold more than one image. IcoShow will compare only the current selected image!

This option can take a while if you use it the first time within a window. You can see the processing within the status line.

Hint:	"Exclude duplicates" within the "Write library" dialog box lets you only exclude duplicate icon files!

Hauptpunkt:  Speed Menu of Windows


Open Dialog Box

Add a new window (or new windows) with the icons existing in a given directory. A dialog box will open to allow you to browse for the directory wanted and to check whether subdirectories and/or icon libraries (...) are to be included and whether IcoShow is to look for and display icon names found in some libraries.

Hint:	If the directory does not exist, IcoShow will create it.

Drives and Directories

Subdirectories

Libraries

Search for Names


Open Dialog Box - Drives and Directories
Drives and Directories

Browse for the name of a drive and/or directory or enter it in the list box below. If you click the OK button or press the Return key, processing of the directory starts.

See also:  Open Dialog Box


Open Dialog Box - Subdirectories
Subdirectories

Select this option if you wish to look for icons in subdirectories of the main directory or drive chosen, too. Each directory containing icons will be shown as  a separate window.

See also:  Open Dialog Box


Open Dialog Box - Include Libraries
Libraries

Check this box if you want to search for icons included in library files too. You may check all types of libraries supported (Exe/Dll/Nil/Icl) or select specific ones.

See also:  Open Dialog Box


Open Dialog Box - Search for Names of Icons
Search for Names

Many icon libraries include names for the icons. If you wish to display those names along with the icons, check this box.

If this option has not been checked or if there are no names assigned to the icons, the library's name is used, suffixed by a running number.

See also:	Open Dialog Box


Select Files Dialog Box

The "Open" dialog box lets you select directories and types of icons, you wish to read. This dialog box shows you all files including icons from the current directory.

You can choose all files or a single library to use.

This dialog box will open after you have issued the Select Files command in the File Menu.


Print Icons Dialog Box

This dialog box will open after you have issued the Print Icons command in the File Menu.

By checking the print names box you will have the names assigned to the icons printed along with the design itself.

See also:	Print Sheet Fact

Print Names with Icons


Print Icons Dialog Box - Print Sheet Fact
Print Sheet Fact

If you check this button, a simple sheet fact (directory/library name and page number) will be printed on the top of each page.

See also:	Print Icons Dialog Box


Print Icons Dialog Box - Print Names with Icons
Print Names with Icons

If you check this button, the names of the icons will be printed below the images.

See also:	Print Icons Dialog Box


Create Library Dialog Box

In this dialog box you can set the options to create a library. If the library already exists, you will be prompted to delete it before you go on.

IcoShow can put over 2,700 icons in a single icon library. But if you want to use the library later with the program manager you should not include more than 1,200 icons. IcoShow will issue a warning.

Only the icons selected will be written to the library. Please check Select/Exclude in Icons Menu to see if your choice corresponds with your intentions.

If you overwrite an old library, you need disk space for both the old and the new version.

Library Name

Type of the Library

Current Window Only

Selected Windows Only

All Windows

Sort Icons

Write Names with Icons

Exclude Duplicates

Write all Images


Create Library Dialog Box - Library Name
Library Name

Enter the name of the library in this field or select it from the list box below.

Default name for the library is ICONS.DLL. IcoShow writes the last name used to the INI file if you have selected "Save Settings On Exit" in the option menu.

See also:  Create Library Dialog Box


Create Library Dialog Box - Type of the Library
Type of the Library

Choose the type of library you wish to create here. Supported are DLL, NIL and ICL files.

See also:  Create Library Dialog Box


Create Library Dialog Box - Current Window Only
Current Window Only

Check this box if you wish to write only the icons selected in the current window.

See also:	Create Library Dialog Box

Selected Windows Only

All Windows


Create Library Dialog Box - Selected Windows Only
Selected Windows Only

Check this box if you wish to write only the icons in the windows selected. You can select these windows in the Select Window Dialog Box from Window Menu.

See also:	Create Library Dialog Box

Current Window Only

All Windows


Create Library Dialog Box - All Windows
All Windows

Check this box if you wish to write the icons selected in all windows.

See also:	Create Library Dialog Box

Current Window Only

Selected Windows Only


Create Library Dialog Box - Sort Icons in Library
Sort Icons

Check this box to write all icons selected in alphabetic order. If this box is not checked, the icons will be written successively.

Hint:	IcoShow sorts the pathnames of the windows in alphabetic order, ascend if windows are minimized and descend if windows are maximized or normally shown (see also menu Minimize Windows and Maximize Windows under Window Menu).

See also:  Create Library Dialog Box


Create Library Dialog Box - Write Names with Icons
Write Names with Icons

Check this box to write icons to the library including their names. If icons have no names, IcoShow builds names using up to 5 characters from the library's name and a 3 character index including only letters and digits (46656 variants).

See also:  Create Library Dialog Box


Create Library Dialog Box - Exclude Duplicates
Exclude Duplicates

Check this box to instruct IcoShow to compare all icons and to exclude duplicates from all the icons to be written to the library.

You can use this possibility to eliminate duplicate icons from your directory even if you want them as .ICO-files.  Write all icons to a library while this box is checked, delete icon files and extract them from the library again.

See also:  Create Library Dialog Box


Create Library Dialog Box - Write all Images
Write all Images

Some icons include more than one image for displays with different numbers of colors. Normally the image selected for your display will be written to the library. If this box is checked, IcoShow will write all images to the library. That will minimize the number of stored icons!

See also:  Create Library Dialog Box


Select Icons Dialog Box

In this dialog box you can enter the Pattern used to select icons for processing.

See also:  Exclude Icons Dialog Box


Pattern to Select/Exclude

The following characters may be used in the pattern string:

Letter/digit/./_ 	normal characters, upper and lower case are not distinguished

? 	any character

* 	a number of any characters

[]	a class of characters

^	negates the class of characters in []

-	a range of characters in  []

Examples for pattern:

A*	all icons, starting with the letter A  as ALPHA.ICO

A	same

A[ABCDE]	all icons starting with the letter A followed by one of the letters A, B, C, D or E

A[A-E]	same

A[^F-Z]	also the same if only letters possible

Please watch out for interactions between Select and Exclude.


Exclude Icons Dialog Box

In this dialog box you can enter the Pattern used to exclude icons from processing.

See also:  Select Icons Dialog Box


Confirm before Dialog Box
"Confirm before" Dialog Box

With this dialog box you can choose the actions you wish to confirm and which ones IcoShow shall perform automatically:

Delete Icons	If you delete an icon (or a minimized window that contains icons) using the Del key, IcoShow will prompt you to confirm. If this option isn't checked, there is no prompt.

Delete empty Windows	Normally if a window doesn't contain any icons after delete or move, IcoShow will close this window automatically. If this option is checked, IcoShow will prompt you before closing the empty window.

Delete empty Directories	Normally if a directory doesn't contain any file after delete or move, IcoShow will prompt you to delete the directory. If this option isn't checked, IcoShow will delete the directory without a warning.

Overwrite Icons	Normally if IcoShow finds an icon with the same name in the destination directory while copying or moving, it will skip this icon. If this option is checked, IcoShow will prompt you to overwrite this icon (and all the following) or to skip.


Overwrite Dialog Box
"Overwrite" Dialog Box

If the option "Overwrite Icons" within the dialog box "Confirm before" is checked, IcoShow will display the following dialog box if an icon name is existing while copying or moving of icons.

Click "Yes" to overwrite the icon within the destination directory with the icon from source directory. Click "No" to skip the copy.

If you copy a minimized window with icons to a destination, you can click "Yes for All" to overwrite respectively to skip all icons in the destination directory which have duplicate names.

Click "Cancel" to cancel the copying.


Edit with... Dialog Box

In this dialog box you can enter the command line used to start icon processing, usually the complet path to start the icon editor of your choice. The name of the icon (or the name of the temporary ico file if you select an icon from a library) to be edited will be added when the command is issued, so the editor will open with the icon already displayed.

This will work only if the editor is capable of command line processing.

See also:  Edit with...


Rename Icon Dialog Box

In this dialog box you can enter a new name for the selected icon. Within directory windows you cannot rename icons from libraries directly, however.

Check the  "Sort" box if you wish to sort the display in the current window after renaming. The icon will be displayed then at its proper place within the window according to its new name.


Basic Settings Dialog Box

Within this dialog box you can change the basic settings of IcoShow. You can reach some settings only at this point (i.e. DlgBkColor)! You find the keywords of the INI file within the listbox "Settings". Most of them you can change either within the edit field "Within INI file set to" or by selecting the proper checkbox within "Options". Double click a keyword to set the default value.

Please press "F1" to get the proper online help.

Although IcoShow uses your changes immediately, these will be fixed after you close the dialog box using the "OK" button. If you close the dialog box using the "Cancel" button, all changes after the last call of this dialog box are lost!


Select Window Dialog Box

This dialog box will help you to select a window quickly or to calculate the number of icons which you wish to write to a library.

Use the Shift key to select more than one window.

If only one window is highlighted, this window will be activated after you press the Enter key or click the OK button.

If more than one window is selected, you can write all icons from windows selected to one library together.

See also:  Create Library Dialog Box


Registration Dialog Box

You will get familiar with this dialog box if you use IcoShow for more than 21 days without registering.


Print Order Form Dialog Box

In this dialog box you may fill in the text for the order form. Printing starts after the print button was clicked.

After printing the form is not saved to disk. After you pressed the OK button you will have to fill it in anew to print another copy.

If you fill in the EMail address (or the network path), I will send you a message after I have a new version on CompuServe.

Please use payment per VISA or Mastercard if you are not from Germany. If you decide to do so, IcoShow displays a dialog box to prompt you for the Card Number and the Release Date.


About IcoShow Dialog Box

Here are copyright messages and some informations on heap and resources used.

"Free Heap" 	shows you the minimum of local and global heap. That will be sure the minimum of the local heap.

"Free Resources" 	shows you the minimum of the local heap from User and GDI.

"Processed Icons" 	shows you the amount of icons read overall.

Check these informations. If you see that "Free Heap" is very small, close windows to free local heap. An overflow in local heap stops IcoShow immediately.

If there are no more windows or dialog boxes displayed, you have too many opened windows.

Critical for allocation is not the number of processed icons, these can be over 10,000, but rather the number of open windows.


Status Line

The status line offers the following informations:

-	state of command Copy/Move in Icons Menu.

If you drag the mouse over the speedbar, IcoShow shows you the use of the current button.

-	state of command Rename/Edit in Icons Menu

-	amount of icons readed and selected and number of open windows

-	amount of icons in the current window or a (sub-)string if Quick Search has been activated.

While longer actions this part of the status line is used to show the processing.


Install Icons to Progman
Install Icons to Program-Manager

You can install icons directly in the program manager if you reduce the size of the IcoShow window until you see the destination.

Place cursor on icon, press down the left mouse button, then drag the icon to its destination and release the mouse button.

IcoShow doesn't not more support the installation of icons within Windows 3.0 and Norton Desktop for Windows 1.0.


Arrange Windows

Tile	IcoShow displays all not-minimized windows as "Tile".

Cascade	IcoShow displays all not-minimized windows as "Cascade".

See also:	Basic Settings Dialog Box


BackColor - background colour of the icons

This statement contains the background color for the displayed icons. If it's missing, the background will be the same as the window background.

Default:	red	191

green	191

blue	191

See also:	Basic Settings Dialog Box


Custom Controls

IcoShow lets you display dialog boxes with different custom controls. That depends upon the libraries (DLL's) you have placed within your windows system directory.

Borland Windows Custom Controls	You need the file BWCC.DLL

Microsoft 3D Controls	You need the file  CTL3D.DLL

IcoShow Controls	These controls are defined from IcoShow. You can use these controls alternate to the  Borland Custom Controls and common with  the Microsoft's 3D Controls.

The files BWCC.DLL and CTL3D.DLL cannot used both together.

See also:	Basic Settings Dialog Box


BackColor - Background colour of the dialog boxes
DlgBkColor - background colour of the dialog boxes

Using this option you can change the background colour of the dialog boxes. This runs only if you don't use Borland's Custom Controls. A change of this colour from lightgray makes the displaying of the dialog boxes slower!

Default:	red	192

green	192

blue	192

See also:	Basic Settings Dialog Box


IconHorizontalSpacing - minimum horizontal distance of the icons

IcoShow changes the horizontal distance of the icons so, that a maximum of icons can be placed on each line, without the names of the icons overlaps. You can increase or decrease (if the value is less than 0) this minimum distance by a constant value.

See also:	Basic Settings Dialog Box


IconVerticalSpacing - minimum vertical distance of the icons

IcoShow changes the vertical distance of the icons so, that a maximum of lines with icons can be placed in the windows, without the names and icons overlap. You can increase or decrease (if the value is less than 0) this minimum distance by a constant value.

See also:	Basic Settings Dialog Box


Minimize - display windows as icons on creation

If this option is checked IcoShow displays windows as minimized on creation.

See also:	Basic Settings Dialog Box


Dragging with the mouse
Dragging icons with the mouse

Copy	You can drag specific icons, or icons symbolizing a minimized window containing icons, to a destination window with the mouse. Place the cursor on an icon, press down the left mouse button, then drag the icon to its destination and release the mouse button.

If this option is checked, the icon(s) will be copied, not moved.

Move	You can drag specific icons, or icons symbolizing a minimized window containing icons, to a destination window with the mouse. Place the cursor on an icon, press down the left mouse button, then drag the icon to its destination and release the mouse button.

If this option is checked, the icon(s) will be moved, not copied. This means that the icon files in the source window will be deleted after copying. Icons from libraries (Exe/Dll/Nil/Icl) within directory windows will not be deleted, but copied.

If the source window is empty after moving icons, you will be prompted for deletion of the directory.

Hint:	Icons with identical names in the source and destination directories will not be deleted because they will not be moved.

Default Copy/Move	You can choose if you want to copy or to move while dragging the icon(s). Use the same keys as in File Manager to switch between copy and move:

Key to	Source and Destination

on the same drive	on different drives

Copy	Ctrl

Move	Shift

IcoShow will show you if the symbol is copied or moved within the status line and it will show or hide the source.

See also:	Basic Settings Dialog Box