Dromed Needs an Icon!

Mortal Monkey on 15/12/2006 at 02:10

Quote Posted by Telliamed

What sizes are you making these? And are you using an alpha channel?

All of them except darked2.ico have 48x48, 32x32 and 16x16 images. Single bit alpha channel only.

Quant on 15/12/2006 at 03:08

Quote Posted by Telliamed

Okay, version 0.5 is uploaded. Not much change in the launcher. Should work for Germans now, at least. (But still can't handle certain filenames -- don't use ~)

Confirmed, 0.5 works fine now :thumb:
A suggestion: Add an option to start DromEd with below-normal priority.
Also, typing is very slow... did you compile the normal version with TypeSlowly defined by mistake? (had trouble recompiling, so I couldn't check)

Quote Posted by Vigil

So what's this keyboard problem?

The technique simulates keyboard input in DromEd's command console. This doesn't work with keys that require to hold down the right Alt key when typing; for german keyboard (drivers) these are: @ € | ² ³ { } [ ] \ ~

Mortal Monkey on 15/12/2006 at 03:44

Quote Posted by Quant

Can't you use a command file to solve that too?

Telliamed on 4/1/2007 at 01:47

Quote Posted by Mortal Monkey

All of them except darked2.ico have 48x48, 32x32 and 16x16 images. Single bit alpha channel only.

MM, send me the icons that you've got. I've almost got the complete package ready.

The old type-bot hack is gone. I'm using a command file now. A lot faster and handles files with extended-ASCII. (note: Dromed displays text using an OEM font, but opens files using the ANSI character set. So the filename it displays in the status line isn't always correct.)

Mortal Monkey on 4/1/2007 at 02:33

You're in luck; I stayed up a bit longer to post something in another thread.

P.S.: you first post still reads "take a loot at this". Was that intentional?

Yandros on 4/1/2007 at 03:44

Quote Posted by Telliamed

What can someone do with (http://www.adenbartdreamteam.nl/WesternSahara.htm) this?

Sorry, I mostly finished these a coupla weeks ago, and just polished them off tonight. The images are crappy GIFs, which you can Save As..., or click them to download TGAs with a full 8 bit mask. They're huge I know (256²), so feel free to size them down to appropriate icon sizes if you decide to use them. And btw, how does one convert TGA/GIF/etc. to ICO?

(http://www.wearytaffer.com/temp/Camel_T1.tga)

Inline Image:

http://www.wearytaffer.com/temp/Camel_T1.gif (http://www.wearytaffer.com/temp/Camel_T2.tga)

Inline Image:

http://www.wearytaffer.com/temp/Camel_T2.gif

Telliamed on 5/1/2007 at 21:59

Quote Posted by Yandros

And btw, how does one convert TGA/GIF/etc. to ICO?

These days I use GIMP.

Mortal Monkey on 5/1/2007 at 22:59

Didn't know The GIMP could do that. Ah well, next time.

R Soul on 6/1/2007 at 01:23

I use IrfanView for icon making, although it (or maybe "I") cannot make a nice 'smooth transparency' effect. Only full or none.

Telliamed on 9/1/2007 at 01:44

W2k added support for 32-bit icons, that's what you're missing. It's easy in Gimp.

Okay, here's the beta 0.9 version of WinDromed.
(http://whoopdedo.org/projects.php?misc#WinDromed)

The launcher has been completely rewritten in C++. (Sorry, Quant.) It made more sense, since the DLL already had to be C++. It also gave me the chance to improve the interface -- both the launcher and property page are theme enabled.

You still have to install manually. Be sure to run INSTALL.BAT even if you used the previous version of the shell extension.