Short: WB-Patch, faking Default-Icons for different Filetypes Author: schulz@rhrk.uni-kl.de (Stefan Schulz) Uploader: schulz rhrk uni-kl de (Stefan Schulz) Type: util/wb Version: 1.20 Architecture: m68k-amigaos Long: IconChief is a Program which causes the Workbench to use more than just the usual 6 Default-Icons for Files. If you take a look at a drawer via Workbench using the Option "all Files" of the Menuitem "Show", all Files which have no Icon will be displayed using one of three Default-Icons, as there are Drawer, Program and Project. The other 3 Default-icons are reserved for Disks, Kickstart-Disks and, of course, the Trashcan. Especially for files of the kind Program and Project you can find out the contents of this file by analysing or by extensions. For example if it is a LHA-Archive or a Text can easily be detected. But even under OS 3.1 the system doesn't pay attention to it and uses one Standard-Icon for all those different kinds of files. Now comes IconChief to do what you miss. When displaying the Files, each of them will be analysed and a Default-Icon will be selected depending on the detected kind of the file. The workbench will get this Default-Icon as the "real" Icon owing to the File. The advantage you get is a better optical representation of the kind of a File. Furthermore, you can set the Tooltypes of the single Default-Icons depending on the kind. So you can simply call a program for a file by double-clicking the Icon, e.g. a Textviewer or a Pictureviewer, displaying Archives or playing Music. The analysis of the files will be done using the WhatIs.library, written by Sylvain Rougier and Pierre Carrette. This is required for using IconChief: o AmigaOS 2.0 (37) or higher o WhatIs.library Version 3 or higher NEW FEATURES SINCE 1.10: o Cleanup on ShowAll o AppIcon for Icon-Creation