IEdit                                                       March 20, 1991
                          NEWS---NEWS---NEWS

     This new file is to give users already familiar with IEdit a brief
overview of the latest "goings-on".

The most obvious new things are two new functions on the menu bar,
EXTRACT is nearly identical to IEXTRACT (a seperate program), and lets
you "steal" icons from Windows applications.  For instance, suppose you'd
like to edit and use the "Desktop" icon from control panel.  All you
have to do is click on EXTRACT, a window will pop up asking for a filename.
So, you'd type something like "C:\WINDOWS\CONTROL.EXE" and EXTRACT would
begin showing you all the icons in CONTROL.EXE.  When you see the desktop
icon, you can select it and it will be loaded into IEdit for editing.
Remember that the icon you extract is still under copyright!

The other nifty new feature is "dithering", also refered to as "checker-
boarding".  It relies on the fact that when you draw two colors close to
one another, they blend together.  So, what you do is click on CHART to see
what kinds of combinations are available, and then click on the one you
like.  The two colors needed to create this will be loaded as your upper
and lower colors and you can draw checkerboard-style by pressing and holding
BOTH left and right buttons and moving around the area.  Using this you
can create some interesting "new" colors, see CHECKER.ICN for an example.

Another new feature added to version 3.2 is the ability to use IEdit as
a cursor editor.  When you specify CUR as the extention (only when saving),
your icon will be saved as a Windows cursor resource file.  Cursors are
basically two monochrome bitmaps, so any colors in your icon will become
white in the cursor.  The main icon area defines the white portion of the
cursor, while the invert mask area defines transparent areas in the cursor.
You should also save cursors as regular icon files since I haven't added
any way to load an already saved cursor file.  For more detailed information,
check your cursor-loading program (such as the Shareware program "CHNGCRSR")
or a good Windows programming book.

Lastly, some people have had trouble with "File error 100", this has been
fixed.  It seems that icon files named *.ICO but less than 766 bytes were
misread.  IEdit now displays these icons as question marks.

Well, that's about it for new things, look for IInject, it'll let you
permanently replace an icon in a Windows application with one of your own!
Now you can replace that pesky "DOS" icon or the "GROUP" icon in Program
Manager.

By the way, the latest versions of IEdit and IInject can be found first on
the 0ubliette BBS at (904) 336-9785.  Many thanks to sysop Kurt Teare.

Good Luck, be sure and call me if you have any problems.

James Bell