Need to change icon selection method.

John P. Rouillard (rouilj@terminus.cs.umb.edu)
Sat, 16 Apr 1994 18:03:09 -0400

I currently have 150 different icons. Sadly only the first 52 or so
show up in the pulldown menu. I have a couple of suggestions:

1) Create a listbox to hold all of the various icons. This way
we can scroll it to the proper point. This does mean that
the icon name will have to be a file name and not a menu
item name.

or

2) Create a multiple heirarchy of icons, so I can do:

icon->node->Sun Workstations->SparcStations->4_90

and

icon->node->Network Components->Routers->Cisco AGS

Again it would be a good idea to use the actual icon
bitmap file name for the -icon switch rather than any type
of menu name.

I would stringly suggest that you save icons by icon file name, and
not by some menu hook. Doing this prevents your new icon definitions
from screwing up my icon definitons (e.g. in 0.9 tkined you added a
couple of new icons (compared to 0.7), and many of my nodes were
displayed with the wrong icons). Also it would be nice if there is
some way to see all of the icons.

As soon as I have finished converting the rest of the donated
sun-net-manager icons, I will make sure that I put them up somewhere.
I have the following icons:

1010conc.xbm 3000conc.xbm 3030conc.xbm 386i.xbm 3_260.xbm 3_280.xbm
4_260.xbm 4_280.xbm 4_490.xbm alliant-fx1.xbm alliant-fx2800.xbm
alliant-fx40.xbm alliant-fx80.xbm auspex.xbm bridge-termserver.xbm
bridge2.xbm cisco.xbm ciscorouter.xbm dec_server100.xbm
dec_server200.xbm dec_server300.xbm decconcentrator-500.xbm
desktop.xbm digital-logo.xbm dot.xbm fastpath.xbm fddi.xbm
gatorbox.xbm gatorbox2.xbm generic-blob.xbm generic-router.xbm
generic-router2.xbm genhost.xbm hub.xbm ibm-es9000.xbm ibm-logo.xbm
ibm-rs6000.xbm kbox.xbm kbox2.xbm mac-Classic-II.xbm mac-Classic.xbm
mac-Generic.xbm mac-II.xbm mac-IIci.xbm mac-IIcx.xbm mac-IIfx.xbm
mac-IIsi.xbm mac-IIx.xbm mac-LC-II.xbm mac-LC.xbm mac-Plus.xbm
mac-Powerbook100.xbm mac-Powerbook140.xbm mac-Powerbook170.xbm
mac-Quadra-700.xbm mac-Quadra-900.xbm mac-Quadra-950.xbm mac-SE.xbm
mac-SE30.xbm mac.xbm multi-port-xcvr.xbm ncd.xbm next.xbm nsc.xbm
os-mvs.xbm os-uts.xbm os-vm.xbm pc-286.xbm pc-386.xbm pc-486.xbm
pc-8088.xbm pc-Generic.xbm proteon.xbm server.xbm ss390.xbm star.xbm
starlan.xbm sun-3-180.xbm sun-3-280.xbm sun-3-50.xbm sun-3-60.xbm
sun-3-80.xbm sun-4-110.xbm sun-4-260.xbm sun-4-280.xbm sun-4-300.xbm
sun-4-330.xbm sun-4-360.xbm sun-4-370.xbm sun-4-380.xbm sun-4-390.xbm
sun-4-470.xbm sun-4-490.xbm sun-4-60.xbm sun-4-65.xbm sun-4-670.xbm
sun-4-690.xbm sun-4-75.xbm sun-elc.xbm sun-ipc.xbm sun-ipx.xbm
sun-slc.xbm sun-ss10.xbm sun3router.xbm sun4router.xbm sunlogo.xbm
sunpedestal.xbm sunserver.xbm swan.xbm terminal.xbm vax-6300.xbm
xylogics-annexII.xbm xylogics-annexIII.xbm xylogics.xbm

I actually prefer some of the supplied sun bitmaps to the contributed
ones, but I will make all of the above available. BTW I got these from
the archive at arizona.edu and the snm mail archive at suneast.

-- John
John Rouillard

Special Projects Volunteer University of Massachusetts at Boston
rouilj@cs.umb.edu (preferred) Boston, MA, (617) 287-6480
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