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“ W i m p T i l e s ”
New Window and Pinboard backdrops
by David Thomas, © 1996
version 1.00 (01 Jan 1996)
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Purpose ___________________________________________________________________
WimpTiles is a set of 25 new Pinboard and window backdrop patterns. It
has a desktop front-end which allows you to pick and mix the available
Sprites to find a combination you like.
WimpTiles needs RISC OS 3.50 or later.
Usage _____________________________________________________________________
To load WimpTiles double-click on its icon in the filer window where it
resides. When it loads it will install on the right-hand side of the icon
bar. Click Select on the WimpTiles icon bar icon to open the main window.
This window is divided into two sections, one controlling the Window
backdrop and one controlling the Pinboard backdrop. Both of the sections
are basically the same.
The section on the left controls what pattern will be used for the
background of ordinary windows. The pattern currently chosen for this
purpose is displayed in the middle of the section in a ‘trench’ display.
Below this display is a pop-up menu selector which allows you to choose a
new pattern by clicking on the submenu button and then choosing from the
menu that is shown. When you choose a new pattern, it will be shown in the
pattern display. Above the pattern display is an option called ‘Window
Backdrop’, which enables you to stop WimpTiles replacing the default window
tile pattern.
The section to the right acts in exactly the same way, but controls the
pattern that will appear on the Pinboard.
The ‘Set’ button on the bottom-right of the window will save your chosen
patterns to a small application called ‘!WimpTiles’ which resides in the
!Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks directory. So when you next re-boot your machine,
they will be automatically installed. However, for the Pinboard backdrop
pattern to work you must set the ‘Background texture’ to ‘None’ in the
Screen section of the Configure application.
The ‘Remove’ button will delete the bootup application from the
!Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks directory.
Notes _____________________________________________________________________
You can add your own patterns to WimpTiles by creating a directory in
!WimpTiles.Tiles with the name of your new pattern. Within this directory
you create a Sprite called ‘Backdrop’ which is used for the Pinboard, and a
three-Sprite file called ‘Tile’ which is used for the window backdrop.
Typically you will want to make ‘Backdrop’ a 16-colour sprite, and ‘Tile’ a
Spritefile of three sprites called ‘tile_1’, ‘tile_1-8’ and ‘tile_1-16’
which have 16-colours, 256-colours and 32,000-colours respectively. You can
define tiles for other colour depth modes by replacing ‘-16’ with ‘-32’ etc.
but they tend to get a bit large.
Versions __________________________________________________________________
1.00 (01 Jan 1996)
- Initial version
- Why is New Year’s Day sooo boring? ;)
Copyright & Contact Addresses _____________________________________________
This software is copyrighted work of David Thomas, it is supplied “as is”;
using it is entirely at your own risk. I make no warranty as to the fitness
of this software for any purpose. You are free to distribute this program
toanyone you please, as long as you are not supplying it for personal or
commercial gain and it is delivered with all of the supplied files unaltered.
If you have any comments, bug reports, suggestions for future versions or
anything else don’t hesitate to contact me at -
Mail: Mr D.P. Thomas
20 Rosebery Avenue
Waterloo
Liverpool
L22 2BH
Email: dpt@tristone.co.uk
WWW: http://www.tristone.co.uk/davespace/
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