This is all applies to whether you are installing the OS3 or OS4 versions of IBrowse - nothing different is required when installing the OS4 version. That said, you may wish to make a backup beforehand although we would hope there will never be any need to revert back to IBrowse 2.4. It is perfectly safe to run the IBrowse installer and choose your existing IBrowse 2.4 location, and the installer will upgrade your install to 2.5 and your existing settings will be retained. Everything that you need to install IBrowse 2.5 can be found from the download page including IBrowse 2.5 itself and links to the required AmiSSL v5 version and MUI 3.x, 4.x or 5.x.Īll that you need to do is run the respective installers and everything should be handled automatically for you. Nothing has really changed in this regard from before, and much of the IBrowse 2.3 installation guide still generally applies. We recognise it may be a while since you last had to install IBrowse, so a refresher > Preliminary character set and utf-8 support (AmigaOS4 Only) In depth documentation for IBrowse 2.3 is available to view online or download at the link below:Īs the full documentation above has not been updated since IBrowse 2.3, additional documentation on some of the main new features and changes since then is shown below: That way, on the fly color mapping is at a minimum and things won't slow down as much.Follow Register IBrowse 2.5.8 starting from only € 29,99 (EUR) Home > News > Download > Register > Known Issues > Add-ons > OpenSearch > FAQ > Mailing Lists > AmiSSL > Documentation Create your icons either in 8 colour Classic Icons (with the system icon editor) or as 16 colour ColorIcon (using PPaint or something).Create your workbench background in a paint program with your 16 colours and save as IFF.So for best visual results on a 16 color workbench. And if you lock all colours with this tool, your palette won't change on the fly. Tools like fullpalette let you manage/lock all of your system colours, then the icons and your background will map on those colours. That's why on non-expanded Amigas, it's not recommended to use backgrounds with lots of colours, or set your colour depth too high, because everything will slow down, trying to cope with these palette optimisations. This is also why the colours of your (classic) icons suddenly can change when you open a program that also want to display some graphics, because the exact workbench palette is not fixed and can change at any time.Īll this "on the fly colour mapping" takes CPU power of course. Your workbench background and your icons get mapped/converted on the fly.Īll workbench programs that want to display graphics can "claim" any amount of colour, then the system works out what the most optimal palette is on the fly and that's the palette all graphics have to work with, including icons and background. ( )Īs Workbench background, you can just use any image you like (IFF and in more recent versions also JPG) with as much colours as you want.Īny OS can display these icons, but the colour depth of your workbench determines how and with what colours they are displayed exactly. For all icons, just install PeterK's latest icon library and you're fine. They are now superseded by "proper" implementations. They were very useful in their day, but are slow and ugly hacks. They are literally 2 PNG files stitched together and are true 32 bit (24bit color and an 8 bit alpha channel)ĭon't install "hacks" like NewIcons or PowerIcons. Introduced in OS4, but with the proper icon.library any Amiga OS can display them. You can use paint programs like PPaint to create those. they are loosely based on NewIcons, just properly implemented on System level. They store color information inside the icon. ColorIcons: These were introduced in OS3.5 but with the proper icon library any Amiga OS version can display them.(and therefor are practically limited to 8 colours) The icons you create with the default OS icon editor are classic icons. Most 8 colour icons are made for the "Magic Workbench" colour palette, simply because it's the only palette that was used so much it became some kind of unofficial standard. Theoretically you can use more than 8 colours, but as there is no "default" palette, this is not practical. Classic icons: these don't store color info in the icon itself but only use the system colours (the ones you see in WB Palette).For Icons: There are 3 main types of icons on Amiga:
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