ABOUT

	What you have here is a somewhat quick but effective 
translation of a set of icons I made quite a while ago for my Macintosh
and have now ported to Windows 95.  You'll find the icons contained in 
a series of Icon Library (.icl) files grouped in a manner similar to 
the grouping of the Mac version.  

	Most of the icons though only have 32x32 pixel with 16 and 256 
color formats.  Black-and-White and 16x16 formats were mostly lost in 
the translation from mac to windows except for a few icons which I 
painstakingly recreated.  

   Cougar Deco:  I have created a site with other WSU themed 
   decorations, some for Windows, some for Macs, some for computers 
   in General, and Some for the WWW.  Check it out, it's 
   Cougar Deco at < http://www.gamers.org/~rkinion/deco/ >

	See the bottom of this doc for some contact info.

FROM THE MAC README
	
	Following are some tidbits I included with the mac version of 
the README file that can also be attributed to the Windows version:

   The Story:  I can in some sense be described as a school spirit nut.
   I just crave to have WSU Cougar stuff adorning my computer.  Imagine
   my disappointment when I couldn't find anything.  No Cougar logo
   graphics, textures, picts, or icons anywhere to be found, if people
   had any they were keeping them hid away.  One day I found a cougar
   icon stuck to some file on the school's Ethernet network and quickly
   grabbed and hid it away.  When I finally got my own computer, I
   began to fool around with the icon and out of that single Icon this
   collection started.
 
   About the Collection 

   This collection is just a whole mess of icons I cooked up on my
   Macintosh, using various--and in my opinion ingenious--combinations
   of ResEdit, a nifty little program called Folder Icon Maker, some
   paint programs, and a little creativity.  You may notice a common
   theme with all of them too. (well duh!)  Many of the icons that I
   used for templates for the collection were just easily made
   variations of icons that I have collected and come across.  Some of
   you who collect Icons might be able to recognize many of them.  Feel
   free to use these to organize you desktop, files, disks and anything
   else through these identifiable icons.  (For those of you at work
   and need to justify this, just tell the boss it's an organizational
   tool  :-).

   A lot of icons here, you say?  Well I don't think my collection is
   near complete!  There is always more that can be added.  If you have
   any WSU or Cougar icons and images that I can make use of, or if you
   have ideas for icons please feel free to e-mail me.  But be warned,
   I am no artist, and studying is going to have to take precedence.
   Doing this collection took a lot of time but I enjoyed doing it.
   This entire collection is free for you to use.  And if you have
   access to WWW feel free to check out My Mac Page at
   http://www.gamers.org/~rkinion/my_mac.html or my new WSU Stuff page
   at http://www.gamers.org/~rkinion/wazzu.html.  My Mac Page is just
   a small nifty document where I praise my macintosh.  The WSU Stuff
   page is choked full of links to many WSU pages I have been able to
   find, and if I don't have links to a WSU web page I probably have
   links to where you can find it.  If you have any suggestions or
   additions for either page or any of my pages, please tell me!  I
   like the input.

   Note on future versions

   Since this collection has gotten so big, future versions of it may
   just be files with new icons or sets of files grouped into
   collections.  I don't know when I'll be able to get to a new
   collection but hopefully I'll get plenty of inspiration.


OTHER MUMBO JUMBO

	The WSU 'coug' and corporate logos are trademarks of Washington 
State University, and they would undoubtedly get really mad if you use 
their logo's for commercial purposes without their express written 
permission (and probably a cut of the action :-).  

	This collection is free to all who wish to download and view, 
no charge is permitted except those necessary for distribution costs.  
Please contact me if you wish to charge for such a purpose.  You are 
free to upload and distribute this collection as long as all the files 
are kept together and intact and the collection remains free of cost.

	I'm sure there are lots of other legal type things to include 
and I will as soon as a lawyer or somebody writes them up for me :-).

VIEWING

	You will probably need some sort of icon editor or viewer to 
browse the icons properly.  The Icon Editor I downloaded for this 
quick translation does support a nifty little function that makes the 
icons self viewable and extractable, but only if I purchase the 
registered version which I didn't want to do for this limited project.  If you don't have an icon viewer handy you could try a quick hack:
	1. Select 'options' from the 'view' menu, 
	2. click on the "File Types" tab, 
	3. pick a file type and click the edit button, 
	4. from the resulting dialog click the 'change icon' button,
	5. then click the 'Browse...' button,
	6. select the icon library you want to view (you may have to 
	   set the file type to "view all") and click 'Open'.
	7. You will get a list of the icons in the file (without their 
	   names).  
	Click the Browse button again to switch to a different library 
	or click the cancel button when your done (unless you really 
	want to make that file type have that icon).

	I do recommend you download a viewer that supports .icl files. 
This makes the icons more enjoyable, plus you will probably get to see 
those cool icon names too.  :-)  If any windows user out there in 
cougar land has registered Axilis AX-Icons 4.0 (the editor I used for 
this) and wants to compile the libraries for me I would be grateful.

HOW I DID IT

	I have wanted to have a windows version of these icons for a 
long time, a couple years.  However I never had the time or resources 
to do it and the few people who volunteered to try have never gotten 
back to me on their results.
	While experimenting for a few days on a Desktop Theme I'm 
fiddling with on my parent's computer I was able to translate a few of 
the icons over using a program called macico, but it was a major pain 
since it only copied the 32x32 16-color version. Searching for better 
programs on the internet proved fruitless, both mac and windows 
programs either didn't support the translation and/or didn't have the 
features I required (mass translation and low loss of the different 
mac sizes and colors).
	By chance though I happened to spot in the documentation of a 
Mac program called 'Icon Archiver 3.0' mention of a new Windows ICO 
plugin.  I'd seen this sort of thing before with poor results but I 
decided to try and low-and-behold the icons translated over relatively 
painlessly and the translator even stuck it in the Windows95 
multi-color and multi-size format.  'All right!' I thought.  But even 
better, with a little work I could stick all the icons in a mac 
archive and then mass translate each into a little .ico file that I 
could transfer to a floppy and take to the PC!  What was once hours 
and hours of boring, repetitive, and painful work became just a couple 
easy hours, and most of that time was spent removing weird characters 
that I named the icons with that Windows doesn't support and removing 
the 16x16 pixel versions on the windows side.  For some reason the 
16x16 versions came through all garbled and unviewable and so had to 
be deleted.  Once I had the icons in .ico format I just put them on 
the PC and then used AX-Icons to import the icons into libraries, edit 
out the garbled ones, re-order the icons a little, and wa-la!  They're 
done!  Whoopee! 
	Because I wanted the WSU logo icons to look particularly good, 
I further edited them with the proper 16x16 pixel icons and 
Black-and-White versions.  In fact because of Windows 95's 48x48 
format I'm even thinking of importing some GIF's to serve as a basis 
for those sizes (with some editing of course.)  It's too much work for 
me to fix all of the 16x16 sizes for the icons, but if someone has a 
mac and a PC and is crazy enough to try, then go ahead, just let me 
know of the results.

CONTACT

Ronald Kinion
email:
	rkinion@gocougs.wsu.edu
	rkinion@wsu.edu
	rkinion@gamers.org
WWW:
   Home - http://www.gamers.org/~rkinion/
   Cougar Deco - http://www.gamers.org/~rkinion/deco/

May 31, 1998
