Users Manual

Kineticon and Kineticon Editor are Copyright ©1998-2000, Kinetic Creations, Inc. All rights reserved. Quick start 1. After installing Kineticon (and restarting your Mac), launch Kineticon Editor. 2. In Kineticon Editor, enable the icon animations that you wish to use. For each enabled icon animation you would like to have appear on a file, folder or drive: 3. Copy the kine's "replacement" icon (to the right of it's enabling check-box) onto the clipboard by selecting the icon and using the "Copy" command in Kineticon Editor's "Edit" menu or by clicking on the small clipboard icon to the right of the kine's replacement icon. 4. Paste the kine's icon onto a file, folder or drive in the Finder by selecting the file, folder or drive and using the "Get Info" command in the Finder's "File" menu. After the "Get Info" window for the file, folder or drive opens, select the icon in the upper-left corner of the window (click on it to select it) and choose "Paste" from the Finder's "Edit" menu. Close the "Get Info" window. 5. Quit Kineticon Editor. The newly pasted icons in the Finder will animate. More complete instructions... What does Kineticon do? Kineticon replaces static (non-animating) icons on your Mac with animated icons. In order to do this, Kineticon attempts to learn where the icons that you've requested it animate are located, it then plays the requested animation in place of the icons. Because Kineticon is only concerned with what the replacement icon looks like while it's trying to figure out where to put an animation, there's no need to "tell" Kineticon which file or folder has an animating icon. Whenever an icon that matches a kine's replacement icon is drawn, it will be replaced by the kine's animation; all that's necessary is to give the file or folder the correct icon. Installing Kineticon To install Kineticon, use the Kineticon installer. The installer will place the Kineticon folder onto your startup drive and the Kineticon extension into your Extensions folder. Once Kineticon has been installed, you can locate Kineticon Editor anywhere that you find convenient. The "Kines" (pronounced as "kinny" like in "skinny") folder and the "Kines (Disabled)" folder can be located anywhere as well, as long as they are somewhere on your startup drive. The first time you launch Kineticon Editor it will ask you to locate the "Kines" folder; if the "Kines" folder is in the same folder as Kineticon Editor it will find it without your help. In addition, if located in either the "Applications Support" folder (only with MacOS 8.0 or higher) or the "Preferences" folder inside your System Folder, Kineticon Editor will automatically locate the "Kines" folder. If you ever need to force Kineticon to ask you where your "Kines" folder is located, simply hold down the option key while launching Kineticon Editor - the editor will ask you to locate the "Kines" folder. Removing Kineticon To disable Kineticon, just take the “Kineticon” file out of your Exten…