OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Graphics and Window Design
Dynamic Icons
David Graser:
This is a great feature that ArcaOS has implemented. I checked and it was not in eCS. Not only can one download and use PNGs off the internet or make your own, one can go to the "Display" setting in each folder's properties, select "Dynamic Icons", and then select the size that he or she wants. Although it works with OS/2 icons, the real benefit comes when one uses PNGs. ArcaOS comes with a directory called BigIcons that one can select PNGs from. They are sized in 64x64, which is a nice size.
David
Martin Iturbide:
Hi David.
I also consider it a nice feature, it is required for higher resolutions. I wrote this down about that because I forget things from time to time.
http://www.os2world.com/wiki/index.php/Increasing_Icon_Size_in_ArcaOS_5.0
If I don't get it wrong that feature cames from the NeoWPS project, I remember that it was also available on eComStation with the name "BigIcon".
On my Santa's wishlist I hope that this component can be open sourced and merged together with XWorkplace. And also if someday it can replace the "icon" property of the WPS objects to don't have "Icon" and "Dynamic Icon" and just one.
Regards
David Graser:
A little off subject, but I think that ArcaOS could have been called "Looking Glass" and instead of calling folders folders, call them portals. Instead of showing folders, have a round glass transparent window with an icon in it. Always thinking. One of those off the wall ideas I had.
ak120:
--- Quote from: David Graser on January 04, 2018, 06:15:16 pm ---This is a great feature that ArcaOS has implemented. I checked and it was not in eCS.
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In fact it's the same Russian shareware, just renamed, as Martin already mentioned.
--- Quote ---Not only can one download and use PNGs off the internet or make your own, one can go to the "Display" setting in each folder's properties, select "Dynamic Icons", and then select the size that he or she wants. Although it works with OS/2 icons, the real benefit comes when one uses PNGs. ArcaOS comes with a directory called BigIcons that one can select PNGs from. They are sized in 64x64, which is a nice size.
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As long the folders only contain a small amount of PNG icons, it works to some degree. But everybody can make a simple calculation how it scales with a higher number. Each PNG file needs at least 32k of extra memory. In the end you will loose more features than you can win actually. Sizes of 64x64 pixel or higher were already available with OS/2 1.2 PM in 1989.
Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.
David Graser:
--- Quote from: David Graser on January 04, 2018, 06:55:47 pm ---A little off subject, but I think that ArcaOS could have been called "Looking Glass" and instead of calling folders folders, call them portals. Instead of showing folders, have a round glass transparent window with an icon in it. Always thinking. One of those off the wall ideas I had.
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I did a proof of concept to see what it looked like. I have attached the 2 pics. The second one shows a folder (portal) open. The open icon shows no picture because the folder icons are now showing. I may continue to play with this for my desktop.
I believe I have found a bug. Dynamic icons work fine when done on the desktop. However, if you open a folder (portal), and try to do a dynamic icon from inside the folder, it does not work. Open properties and it shows that it is there. Close and the default icons always shows. I tried this just for folders inside of folders. This problem may hold true for program objects too.
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