IconPainter is shareware written by Colin Mummery who can be contacted at sales@cellspark.com and whose homepage is www.cellspark.com.

IconPainter installation notes

The IconPainter ZIP file name indicates the date that the product version in the file was built in day/month/year order. The IconPainter ZIP file contains: IconPainter requires that the Java 2 virtual machine be installed on your machine. This is available free at from Sun. The program is packaged into the single JAR file. This can be run by either double clicking on it in Windows (or a single click in Solaris) or alternatively with the command
      java -jar IconPainter.jar
The IconPainter JAR file is self-contained and should not be unzipped. This JAR file cannot be run as an applet in a browser, instead it must be run as a standalone application (similar to a '.exe' file on a PC). It can be placed in any directory on a users machine. When it runs it will create two directories as subdirectories to the directory where it resides. These are called "props" and "myicons". The directory "props" contains files for saving session information as well as registration information. The directory "myicons" is the default directory for saved icons. If the user saves the current palette a third directory called "palettes" will be created. Erasing any of the directories is not critical as they will automatically be recreated by IconPainter however they also contains registration information so the registration code may have to be re-entered.

The user manual for the product is accessed via the help menu.

Known issues

Display problems

If you use a Windows PC and the IconPainter windows are not repainting properly then right click on the Windows desktop and select properties. This gives you the Display properties dialog. Select Settings then Advanced and turn down the graphics acceleration. Turning down the acceleration may also cause the cursor to flicker in which case turn off IconPainter's animated logo by using the appropriate option in the "Settings" menu.

Paying for IconPainter

IconPainter can be registered online with a credit card via the Kagi payment service.

Installing the latest IconPainter over older versions.

If you want to preserve the "myicons" directory from an older version then it's quite ok simply to replace only the old version's JAR file with the newer JAR file. In this case it's quite probable that most settings from the last session eg.current color, will be reset. Note: User's of version 2.5 or less should re-register to use a higher version
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