OK thanks, I'll create the icons for AROS One in the meantime!

Now that another project using Datatypes has been completed I can focus again on Icon Press to attempt to save an Amiga Glow Icon from two input ILBM images. It's coming along nicely, but it's a slow iterative process. It takes some time!

I'm still working on revising & testing Icon Press to Save Amiga Icons, as well as a user interface for Icon Split that will be Amiga 68k compatible.

Now that I'm fixing up my testing environments including AROS One x86 & Tiny AROS & my new version of a minimalist AROS Distro. I'm still working on improving it & updating the icons & making new window themes. You have already seen a sample screenshot. Here it is again...

I need some new & updated colored icons so now I also need new icon tools. These will be Icon Mask, Icon List, Icon Tint & Icon Batch. Icon List builds a list of all the icons on the system.

Icon Mask & Icon Batch are related. Icon Mask uses an original icon image, icon image mask & icon base image to make a new icon image. Icon Batch does the same but it makes & builds all the icon images in the list & it assembled icons. Icon Batch can make & assemble 400 images to make 200 new icons in less than one minute!

Happy New Year!

Just a small update. I'm still working on Icon Press to Save A Classic Icon (Amiga Icon).

happy new year Mike

Thanks! You also.

Maybe 2025 will be a good year for AROS.

Definitely Mike, AROS has grown considerably in quality and stability,
especially if you have a PC with supported hardare, as demonstrated in this video!

https://youtu.be/...

Let's hope for the best

The Save_Amiga_Icon functions are coming along nicely! For the sub-functions other than Write_OS35data the second most difficult for me was the Write_Image function which writes planar data to file. There are just a few functions left to do till Save_Amiga_Icon is done. I've been working on Save_Amiga_Icon for 6 months.

Why is it so important to save an Amiga Icon? The Classic Icon is the basis for three of the Icon styles supported by AROS. The Amiga Glow Icon is a Classic Icon (Old Icon Format) with OS 3.5 IFF Icon Data attached at the end. The IFF data contains the images that AROS displays. An OS4 icon is a Classic Icon with OS 3.5 Data attached. But unlike a Glow Icon it only has a 'FACE' chunk with no 'IMAG' chunks. It has 2 'ARGB' chunks at the end of the Icon file that are used to display. The AROS Hybrid Icon or ARGB Icon is similar to the OS4 Icon but it has a complete Glow Icon that 2 ARGB chunks are attached to at the end.

Write_Image is now working. Save_Amiga_Icon loads an ILBM file to get the chunky image data which consists of index values. The image data is processed by RemapIconImage which maps the index values to a standard 4-color palette. Write_Image then writes the planar data to file.

In the screenshot on the lower right side there are 2 small Windows displaying icons. I used the VIEW option for modifyicon to display the Old Icon Images & Glow Icon Images to make sure Write_Image was working correctly. At first it wasn't. The first set of images shows distortion for the Old Icon Images, though the Glow Icon Images are shown correctly.

The distortion for the Gadget Images is caused by incorrectly handling the padding bytes at the end of each scanline for the planar data. I tried to go the easy route by writing the entire planar buffer to file in one go. This is the result.

In the second set of images you see that the Gadget Images & Glow Icon Images are shown correctly. I had to revise Write_Image to write each scanline separately with padding bytes.

wow big job

It's been a while since I worked on AROS programs. About this time last year I started looking for a new place of employment. Many things have happened since then. But it's good to be back. I have been checking the forum from time to time and I've seen some good projects.

I'm working on Icon Builder again and I've made some progress. A year ago I had a problem with the blur effect. I'll explain in more detail.

For the Icon Builder program after the Glow Mask has been created using the chain code from the Image Tile the next step is to import the RGB Glow Mask into Photoshop then set layer opacity =70 and do Filter / Blur / Blur twice to produce the 32 bit Glow Border. That's the method Ken was using for making icons.

But it's not reasonable to require AROS users to get and install a copy of Photoshop to do the blur effect. Instead that function should be done in the program itself. But the difficulty is trying to guess what code is being used for the Photoshop Blur Effect.

At first I thought it was a simple Box Blur but that wasn't it. Yesterday I discovered that a Gaussian Blur with radius 0.50 creates a nearly perfect ARGB Glow Border! Now I just have implement a Gaussian Blur algorithm and continue testing. ;-)

The end result will be to easier add a realistic Glow Border to an icon image.

Welcome back, Miker.