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 Post subject: Recycler Partly Solved :)
PostPosted: Sat Jun 16, 2018 7:30 pm 
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Well, I'm at last getting somewhere with the old recycler. Having converted the original NeXT alphas to .psd (Photoshop) format, I reduced the 64x64 canvas as close to 48x48 as possible without cutting off any bits of the various images. Then, not in Photoshite, I reduced the images of these part-reduced .psd files to 48x48 - success! They actually looked quite acceptable, with a little enhancing. They now work fine as the in-shelf/dock animation. :)
However, the shelf and dock seem to render icons, or in this case more precisely .png files, differently - the in-dock recycler is noticeably smaller than the in-shelf one, as can be seen in this combined grab:
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Also, the in-dock image is quite fuzzy, compared to the in-shelf one. Both shelf and dock are set for 48x48 icons. The (vertical, docked to edge) dock is a background one. Could it be that the dock is squeezing the icon sizes a little because it is very nearly full? However, it also appears smaller - albeit a bit less so and less fuzzy - when centred on top edge, where there's oodles of space at the sides.

Anyway, at least that part is working now as it's supposed to. Still leaves two little problems to be sorted.

One, the desktop recycler module as non-animated. From what I gleaned from the WS 9.5 User Guide, the format for this changed from the old one and now uses the empty and full icons from the in-shelf anim files., i.e., WsTrashES.* and WsTrashFS.*? However, it doesn't explain how this works. I assumed that one uses a background in the form of WsTrashE, or WsTrashE and WsTrashF, but neither of these work. Is there some setting that I'm missing?

Two, the custom animation for the desktop recycler. Am I correct in assuming that it wants the individual images, e.g., WsTrashES, WsTrash1, *2, *3, *4, *D, *FS, directly adjoining one another in that order in a .png file? And what, if any, settings do I need to add in the *.wsr config file?

It will be one hell of a relief to get this sorted at last. :)

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