Icon Tap (version 2) Readme

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CONTENTS OF THIS FILE

CONDITIONS OF USE

DISCLAIMER

DISTRIBUTION

FILES INCLUDED IN THIS PACKAGE

INSTALLATION

UNINSTALLING Icon Tap

HISTORY

USING Icon Tap

FURTHER INFORMATION

COPYRIGHT NOTICE

The HABit Icon Tap utility and all accompanying files are copyright (2001, 2002) to the author

Henry Bartlett

    237 Peel Street
    LAUNCESTON
    Tasmania
    Australia 7250
email: habitsoft@gmail.com

and may not be copied, decompiled or changed in any manner except as authorised by the copyright holder.

CONDITIONS OF USE

You may use Icon Tap free of charge for as long as you wish except that if you find it useful, you are requested to contact the author by postcard or email to the address above to let him know that you are using Icon Tap. Suggestions (preferably constructive) as to improvements are welcome.

All information received in this way will be held in strict confidence and not used for spam nor made available to others.

DISCLAIMER

The author disclaims all warranties as to this software, whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

The author has tried to ensure that programming errors in Icon Tap have been reduced to a minimum and that the program functions correctly but the author cannot be held responsible for any losses sustained through the use of Icon Tap.

DISTRIBUTION

Icon Tap may not be included in any commercial package or in any Cover disk without the author's explicit permission. Otherwise, you may copy Icon Tap and distribute Icon Tap freely provided:

that the distribution package is copied complete.
(that is all files are included and no changes are made to any files that form part of the package)

that no charge be made for the media containing Icon Tap that is more than the reasonable retail cost of the blank media.

Users of Icon Tap who have suggestions about improvements or who find any problems in the use of Icon Tap are invited to contact the author.

email: habitsoft@gmail.com

FILES INCLUDED IN THIS PACKAGE

readme.txt - this file
icontap.exe - the program file

INSTALLATION

Select or create a folder for your Icon Tap files. (C:\habutil is suggested)

Find the folder containing the extracted files and copy icontap.exe and readme.txt to your Icon Tap folder.

Create Desktop and/or Start-Menu shortcuts in the normal manner.

UNINSTALLING HABit Icon Tap

Delete the files icontap.exe and readme.txt.
If you created a folder for Icon Tap and it no longer contains files then delete it also.

Delete any IconTap shortcuts on the Desktop or in the Start-Menu.

HISTORY

Icon Tap is based partly on a programming exercise in Delphi Programming for Dummies, 2nd ed, 1996 by Neil J Rubenking.

Icon Tap Version 1 (for Windows 3X) released March 2001.

Icon Tap Version 2 (for Windows (9X, XP) released April 2002.

USING Icon Tap

Icons are contained in Icon files, some program (exe) files and some library (dll or icl) files. Program and library files may each contain a number of icons.

Icon Tap allows you to find the icons in these files and to extract them as separate icon (ico) or bitmap (bmp) files.

WARNING: Using icons extracted from such files may involve breach of copyright law. It is your responsibility to ensure that you have permission to copy and use such icons.

Run the program and use the Folder Tree box to select the folder containing the files you wish to examine or extract icons from.

In the Files Box, the names of files which contain icons are marked with a small version of the first icon in the file. If you do not see an icon beside a filename, there are no icons in that file.

You can resize the window panes by dragging on the dividers wth your mouse.

To show all the icons in the file, click on the file name and the icons will be shown in the large Icon window.

To extract a particular icon, select the icon by clicking on it and then click on the [Save as Icon] button to save it as a separate icon file or on [Save as Bitmap] to save it as a bitmap file. In either case you will be asked for a name for the file.

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information, contact

Henry Bartlett
email: habitsoft@gmail.com