The Iconizer 2

revision 1.01 (or 2.01) , 1/11/94
added the a feature to enable useage as a shell properly,
when the line UseAsShell=1 exists in icon.ini then Iconizer 2
will load the program on the load= and run= line in the win.ini file

Written By Mathew Dredge


NOTE...
This program is freeware and if you like it, you could try to e-mail
me at one of the addresses below, I would like to know if it is being used.

HISTORY

The Iconizer Was originally written so that I did not have to use
the program manager all the time. I wanted a program that did not
take up large areas of screen, used drag-n-drop, placed anywhere 
on the screen, any dimensions, used a single click to run a program
and many other features. What I found was a number of programs that
had one feature or the other but were allways limited in what it
could do. There were also nagging shareware screens or it was written
with visual basic (Very Slow). I Wrote a version of this program in C
for windows, My first attempt at a windows program. It was a horrable
program but it was Fast. In most cases it was faster than the program
manager.
When I learnt Object Oirentated C++ I soon decided that a good thing 
to do in the holiday would be to rewrite the iconizer using Object 
Oirentated Techniques and ObjectWindows 2.0. The resulting application
is much nicer and has about half the lines of code and does more.

FEATURES

Multiple Drag-n-Drop.
Help.
Program manager like dialogs.
Simple Setup Dialog.
Upto 100 Icons.
Popup Menu.
Quick Exit of Windows
Restart Windows.
Quick Reboot From Windows.
Small, Large or no caption.
Single or Double Click to run programs.
Display Of Icon Title in bar.
3D Dialog Boxes
Use as a Shell

INSTALLING...

1. copy ctl3dv2.dll to the windows system directory.
2. copy the rest to another directory e.g. c:\iconizer

3. put the iconizr2.exe into the program manager startup
   group or in the load= line in win.ini then load the program
  or
   change the line in the system.ini from
	shell=progman.exe
    to
        shell=c:\iconizer\iconizr2.exe
   and add the line UseAsShell=1 to icon.ini
   restart windows.

4. press f1 for help or click the right mouse button on the window
   for a menu,

WHY RELEASE NOW..

The Iconizer is not exactly finished, But then it never will be. The
Imminant release of Windows 4 will spell the end of my need for this
program so I leave it here as it is.


WHO WROTE IT.

      Name: Mathew Dredge
       Age: 20
     Where: Matangi, New Zealand.
Occupation: Student, National Diploma in Business Computing, Waikato Polytechnic.


I can be reached on FIDO NET using my name.
NetMail address 3:774/1200.2

or

Internet
mathew.dredge@p2.f1200.n774.z3.fidonet.org
mathew.dredge@p2.f1200.n774.fido.net.nz
untill end of november 1995 at
mdredge@vader.twp.ac.nz

OTHER PROGRAMS..

3D-Tic-Tac-Toe...
	Written for an Input Output Design assignment..


Mathew.