Beta: Shez's TP5 style icons for TP6
Andy Mabbett
6.01 (beta)? Should I perhaps wait for a final release before using them
again?
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Philip Powell
<an...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> writes
>Does anyone know if Shez's TP5 style icons for TP6 will work OK with
>6.01 (beta)?
Work just fine here (-:
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>6.01 (beta)?
Are these generally available?
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Shez
You can find info on my icon and toolbar enhancement project at
http://www.xerez.demon.co.uk/tp6wish.htm
There is a 40K zip file of icons + patch script that you can download
from my site to apply the icons to your own copy of Turnpike.
To use the script you also need to download a freeware resource editor
called "Reshacker", a link to which is also available on my site. (You
don't actually need to familiarise yourself with how to use reshacker,
since it is controlled by my script when called by the supplied batch
file.)
The download includes 19 icons of which 15 are installed by default, and
you can tailor the script to choose just the icons you want to replace.
Full info can be found in the readme.htm file in the zip file.
-Shez.
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Philip Powell
<ne...@xerez.demon.co.uk> writes
>Lyndon Hills <lyn...@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>In message <qTII8DG1...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>, Andy Mabbett
>><an...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> writes
>>>Does anyone know if Shez's TP5 style icons for TP6 will work OK with
>>>6.01 (beta)?
>>
>>Are these generally available?
>
>You can find info on my icon and toolbar enhancement project at
>http://www.xerez.demon.co.uk/tp6wish.htm
>There is a 40K zip file of icons + patch script that you can download
>from my site to apply the icons to your own copy of Turnpike.
>
>To use the script you also need to download a freeware resource editor
>called "Reshacker", a link to which is also available on my site. (You
>don't actually need to familiarise yourself with how to use reshacker,
>since it is controlled by my script when called by the supplied batch
>file.)
>
>The download includes 19 icons of which 15 are installed by default, and
>you can tailor the script to choose just the icons you want to replace.
>Full info can be found in the readme.htm file in the zip file.
And they work fine with TP6.01b2 before anyone asks (-:
Andy Mabbett
<phi...@blencathra.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes
>And they work fine with TP6.01b2 before anyone asks (-:
Presumably, they need to be reinstalled?
Quite why TP can't have a "use alternative icons" option is beyond me;
doubly so from an accessibility point of view.
James Coupe
<an...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> writes:
>In article <dJIddGBp$FJ8...@blencathra.demon.co.uk>, Philip Powell
><phi...@blencathra.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes
>>And they work fine with TP6.01b2 before anyone asks (-:
>
>Presumably, they need to be reinstalled?
>
>Quite why TP can't have a "use alternative icons" option is beyond me;
>doubly so from an accessibility point of view.
They don't want to have to train the helpdesk in an entirely different
look and feel?
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Philip Powell
<an...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> writes
>In article <dJIddGBp$FJ8...@blencathra.demon.co.uk>, Philip Powell
><phi...@blencathra.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes
>>And they work fine with TP6.01b2 before anyone asks (-:
>
>Presumably, they need to be reinstalled?
'fraid so.
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Lyndon Hills
>>In message <qTII8DG1...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>, Andy Mabbett
>><an...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> writes
>>>Does anyone know if Shez's TP5 style icons for TP6 will work OK with
>>>6.01 (beta)?
>>
>>Are these generally available?
>
>You can find info on my icon and toolbar enhancement project at
>http://www.xerez.demon.co.uk/tp6wish.htm
>called "Reshacker", a link to which is also available on my site.
I did all that, and installed the new icons, including the four not
installed by default: but the one that I most wanted to change - the
wastebasket - remained unchanged. I'm using TP6.01b2 on XP, if that
makes any difference.
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Philip Powell
<lyn...@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes
Using TP6.01b2 on W98 and I have Shez's wastebasket ok.
simon smith
<an...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> writes
>In article <dJIddGBp$FJ8...@blencathra.demon.co.uk>, Philip Powell
><phi...@blencathra.demon.co.uk.invalid> writes
>>And they work fine with TP6.01b2 before anyone asks (-:
>
>Presumably, they need to be reinstalled?
>
>Quite why TP can't have a "use alternative icons" option is beyond me;
>doubly so from an accessibility point of view.
I would love to install Shez's excellent icons but I fear about them
creating corruptions in future editions of Turnpike.
I also hope the developers will see the light and incorporate some TP5
style icons back into TP6 soon. The 'mark interesting/unintersting'
area is particularly unclear and fiddly.
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simon smith
Andy Mabbett
<fig...@clara.co.uk> writes
>The 'mark interesting/unintersting' area is particularly unclear and
>fiddly.
Indeed; reliance on colour , as opposed to colour *and* shape is unwise,
bordering in discriminatory.
The RNIB have guidelines on such matters, which ,I am sure, the would
make available to TP's developers. I seem to recall pointing this out to
them, previously.
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Andy Mabbett
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Shez
>In message <v0RdpnHF...@xerez.nospam.co.uk>, Shez
><ne...@xerez.demon.co.uk> writes
>>http://www.xerez.demon.co.uk/tp6wish.htm
>
>installed by default: but the one that I most wanted to change - the
>wastebasket - remained unchanged. I'm using TP6.01b2 on XP, if that
>makes any difference.
The usual reason for left-hand pane icons not appearing
(or alternatively, not disappearing after being uninstalled)
is that Windows caches folder and application icons in a file called
ShellIconCache in your Windows directory, but doesn't update it very
often. To force Windows to notice a change of icons you need to delete
the ShellIconCache file, which causes Windows to refetch fresh copies of
the icons from the various applications. (Alternatively, the Windows
utility TweakUI can be used to force the icon cache to be rebuilt,
though I don't know offhand whether this usually works or not.)
-Shez.
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