Welcome to the Desktop Textures Suite of Programs and Textures!
This release includes the newest version of the Desktop Textures Installer, version 2.1, introduces the Texture Randomizer and the Texture Scroller, and presents four texture files: Textures Volumes I, II and III and a 32-bit Texture Supplement.
The Desktop Textures Suite includes 83 textures and provides the facility to install any of them in your system as the desktop pattern. Unlike other programs of this type, it does not require an Extension or Control Panel to be placed in the System Folder. We've tried to include smooth desktop "textures" which are suitable for long-term use, and keep distracting, "busy" patterns to a minimum. Our textures can add considerably to the perception of depth on your desktop. There are even several which can be viewed (Stare-E-O style) as true three-dimensional patterns.
Installing a texture with this program is much like using the General Control Panel, and you can revert at any time to the normal 8-by-8 patterns.
In addition to the ability to install the many textures included in this package, the Desktop Textures Installer provides facilities to help create textures. Once you have created a texture in a drawing, painting, rendering, or other graphics program, just copy it and paste it into the Desktop Textures Installer! You can also gather and store collections of textures in multiple texture files for easy organization.
THE PROGRAMS
The Texture Installer does most of the work. You use this program to browse through the texture files, create textures, move textures from one file to another, and install textures.
The Texture Randomizer can be set up to install a random texture on your desktop on startup (or at any other time).
The Texture Scroller is provided to make life easier when creating textures. It allows you to shift the contents of any PICT in the Clipboard left to right and up and down. This is helpful for making patterns repeat smoothly.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
The Texture Installer and Texture Scroller programs runs under System 6 or System 7, but the Texture Randomizer works only under System 7. Because of their intrinsic color nature, these programs require Color QuickDraw. Many features in the Installer are considerably enhanced if System 7 is present.
DISTRIBUTION
The following 12 files are included in this distribution set, and must be distributed together:
Textures Volume I Desktop Textures README
Textures Volume II About the Textures
Textures Volume III
32-bit Texture Supplement
Desktop Textures 2.1 Texture Installer README
Texture Randomizer 1.0 Texture Randomizer README
Texture Scroller 1.0 Texture Scroller README
This program is Shareware with a twist -- you are not required to send in any money! We just hope you will anyway. No guilt trips. No annihilating of all your copies within 30 days. If you like our program and our textures and would like to reward us, you may. For this purpose, we have included both of our addresses in the About box. We will share anything you send to one of us (if possible -- it would be difficult to share a postcard, for example, but we accept them happily nonetheless). One last note - we are but poor, humble college students and would love to receive any sort of financial compensation for all our time and effort. : )
You may and we encourage you to distribute this product as long as you do not charge anything beyond the cost of the media. Please include the entire and unmodified distribution set, including the README file and the texture resource files. If you wish to include this product in any software collection (including Shareware or User's Group collections), obtain our permission first. Geoff Adams and Stephen Krauth reserve all legal rights to this software and the included resources and offer no warranty of any kind.
