Icons Control 4.51
12/06/95


INTRODUCTION
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Icons Control is designed to display as many Windows icons as possible in a 
10x10 grid. Icons can be copied, renamed, moved, and erased with a click of 
the mouse. Hardcopy of icons can be printed on any printer supported by 
Windows. Icons Control can even display icons embedded inside DLL or EXE 
files. Displayed icons can be edited, converted to bitmaps, or extracted to 
ICO format (in the DLL or EXE viewing mode.)  In addition, 32x32-pixel bitmaps 
can also be converted to ICO format. Conversion and extraction can be done in 
batch mode, thus saving a considerable amount of time for those of you with 
large number of icons to process. Furthermore, any portion of the screen can 
be captured into an icon or bitmap. For a complete description of Icons 
Control, please refer to the help file accessible by clicking on the Help 
icon from outside as well as inside the program.


INSTALLATION
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Run SETUP from the Windows File Manager.  You will be asked to enter a 
directory to install Icons Control (default is Icnctrl.)  For users who 
download the Icons Control package from the internet, you may need to 
download a copy of VBRUN300.DLL from the same site.  Since VBRUN300.DLL is 
about 300K and almost everyone running a Visual Basic application have it, 
I am not including it in the zip file to save disk space and download time.  
Users who wish to receive the software on a 3.5" floppy disk will have every 
files needed (including the VBRUN300.DLL) to run the software.


HARDWARE/SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS
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* Any computer running Windows 3.1/Windows 95.
* A standard VGA (a Windows-accelerated graphic board is recommended.)
* A mouse or trackball.
* Any printer supported by Windows (optional.)

Icons Control has been developed and tested on a 486DX66 with 8MB of RAM, a 
1 MB Diamond Stealth 24 Windows accelerator board (at screen resolutions 
640x480x16, 640x480x256, 640x480x65536, 800x600x256, 800x600x65536,
1024x768x16, and 1024x768x256), a trackball, and mouse.  It has also
been tested on a 100 MHz Pentium-based machine with 16 MB of RAM, a 1 MB 
Diamond Stealth 64 SE (PCI) with the same above settings.

NOTE: Icons Control may not run properly on video modes higher than 65,536 
      colors. If you encounter "OUT OF MEMORY" errors when running Icons 
      Control, I recommend running Windows at a lower color depth. Some of 
      you may confuse between color depth and resolution. Color depth 
      determine the number of colors are available for displaying images 
      (16, 256, 64K, or 16M (24-bit color.) Screen resolution is the number 
      of pixels available on screen (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, or 1280x1024.)


DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SHAREWARE AND REGISTERED VERSION
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Shareware:
* Copy.                 
* Rename.
* Move.
* Delete.
* Edit.
* ICO to BMP conversion.
* Printing hardcopy of icons.

Registered:
Above functions plus:
* BMP to ICO conversion.
* Icons extraction from DLLs and EXEs.
* Captures any portion of the screen into an icon.
* Access to image flipping and shifting tools.


REGISTRATION
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Icons Control is both freeware and shareware.  Freeware users are free to use 
it to view, copy, mode, delete, and rename icons.  Icons Control even displays 
icons embedded inside DLL and EXE files.  The displayed icons cannot be 
extracted, edited, or converted.  The extraction, editing, and conversion 
functions are only available in the registered versions (shareware.)  There 
is no evaluation period to use Icons Control.  You may use it as long as you 
want.  But in order to use the above-mentioned functions, you must register 
to obtain the registered version.


PAYMENT TERMS
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Registration is $25.  Registered users will receive the latest version 
through internet email (uuencoded.) If you prefer to receive the software 
on a 3.5" floppy disk, the fee is $29.  As of this writing, I only accept 
money orders, cashier checks, bank checks, or personal checks (MUST be 
payable through a U.S. bank).  International users can transfer the $25 
fee to my Bank of America account directly.  This type of payment requires 
an additional $10 because BoA charges my account $10 for the transfer fee. 
Send me e-mail for my account number and confirmation.  Compuserve users 
can register on-line and obtain the registered version within 24 hours.  
My Compuserve Author Registration ID is 7437. A collection of over 1,600
icons sorted in 24 different categories (DLL format) is also available for 
an additional $10, please see the REGISTER.TXT file for more info.  Please 
fill in the information sheet in the REGISTER.TXT form and mail it along 
with your payment to:

Chris Doan
4891 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., #401
San Diego,  CA 92117

A single user license permits a user to use Icons Control only on a single
computer.  Licensed users may use the program on different computers as long 
as there is no possibility of it being used at one location while it is being 
used at another, or on a network by more than one user at a time.

A site license is required by a corporation, company, educational institution, 
or governmental agency for use of Icons Control software on the total number 
of computers that will use the software.

Thank you for supporting the shareware software concept and encouraging the 
future development of Windows shareware!

Chris Doan
San Diego, California
December 1995

doanc@netcom.com
102425.1613@compuserve.com
