Short:        Optimize icons for size/speed, gen. C code
Author:       ferber@rpk.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de (Tobias Ferber)
Uploader:     tf antares ping de (Tobias Ferber)
Type:         util/wb
Replaces:     util/wb/opticon-1.8.lha
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

This package includes OptIcon version 1.9 and Icon2C version 1.6.
OptIcon optimizes Workbench icon files for size and speed.  I.e. planes
which are entirely 0 or 1 are modified to use the Image's PlanePick and
PlaneOnOff fields,  trailing 0-planes are removed.

OPTICON ALLOWS YOU TO LIMIT THE # OF BITPLANES IN ICON FILES.  YOU MAY
NEED THIS TO CUT OFF ALL BUT THE FIRST <n> PLANES OF THE IMAGES BECAUSE
OF THE PROBLEM WITH COMMODORE'S ICON EDITOR WHICH ALWAYS WRITES 8 BITPLANE
IMAGES !!!

This speeds up Martin Huttenloher's MagicWB icons by a factor of 2-3 !!
A scriptfile to patch a complete directory tree's icon files is included
in this archive.

THIS VERSION OF OPTICON NOW ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO EXPAND YOUR 8 OR MORE COLOR
ICONS FOR THE USE ON A 16 OR MORE COLOR WORKBENCH.

This is important due to the new color system under OS3.x which always
shifts the second 4 colors to the end of the system palette.  Therefore
you might want to adapt an icon's color depth to the actual screenmode
it is used on.

Icon2C generates a highly documented and directly compilable C sourcecode
from an icon image.  If compiled w/ -DTEST option an executable will be
generated which writes back the original icon to disk.
This allows you to modify an icon in detail for your own needs.