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Support for Workbench enhancers and replacements

The new icon.library/IconControlA() call provides a way for applications to change the default parameters used by the icon.library when reading, remapping, drawing and saving icons.

This new functionality obsoletes most of the Workbench patches that have been around before OS 3.5. There are now documented (and clean) ways to disable icon borders and to install a hook to choose default icons for icon-less files.

For icon editors and other applications that need to create fresh new icons, the NewDiskObject() function provides a way to create and initialize a DiskObject structure. The old official way to do this was to to get a default icon with GetDiskObjectNew() or even create the structure manually. The latter method is now considered OBSOLETE and VERY SYSTEM UNFRIENDLY. The V44 icon.library contains compatibility code to distinguish between real DiskObjects and fake DiskObjects created by unfair applications. These hacks will stop working once the compatibility code is dropped for future versions of the icon.library.


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