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- MagicExpansion
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- Useful expansions for MagicWB and MUI
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- Version 1.3 (August 1994)
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- Copyright © 1994 by Johannes Beigel
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- GIFTWARE
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- Introduction
- ************
-
- MagicExpansion is a package with lots of expansions for MagicWB by
- Martin Huttenloher and MUI (MagicUserInterface) by Stefan Stuntz.
-
- MagicExpansion ist GIFTWARE. That means you should send me a little
- gift, if you use MagicExpansion (I prefer CDs/MCs/LPs with all kinds of
- rock, techno, jazz or blues music :)
-
- Address: Johannes Beigel
- Fliederstr. 43a
- 65396 Walluf
- GERMANY
-
- Yes, you've read right. After version 1.2, which was Shareware, is
- MagicExpansion 1.3 Giftware again. Users, who registered for
- MagicExpansion 1.2 will still get the following versions of
- MagicExpansion.
-
-
- Why Giftware again?
- ===================
-
- Mr. F.B. sent a comment to Internet in which he said how he dislikes
- MagicExpansion. I must say, that he was right in several points. But I
- don't guess that I violate the copyright, when I use parts of other
- XEN-icons in my icons. I realized that only little people want to pay 10
- bucks additionally to the MagicWB and MUI Shareware fee (The one who
- still wants to send me money can do this - MagicExpansion is Giftware
- now). Besides, the original XEN-MUI-brushes are deleted from the image
- sets, the amount of icons gets bigger and the package grows and grows. I
- think, *now*, nobody can say anything against MagicExpansion. I swear
- that I drew the popXXX-images of 'Jojo_Black_11pt' and 'Jojo_Black_13pt'
- *before* I saw the images of the set 'WD_13pt' of MUI 2.1.
-
-
- Contents
- ********
-
- The package contains icons, mouse pointers, palettes, patterns, MUI
- brushes, C include file, char sets and a few documentation and picture
- files.
-
-
- Icons
- -----
-
- You may have noticed already some of the new icons of this version 1.3:
- the small drawer and text file icons. If you open the drawer "Icons" you
- will find many more icons. They are stored in different directories to
- keep them in order.
-
- The icons are drawn in XEN-style (MagicWB like icons). Some icons are
- very small, some icons are bigger. Use the icons you prefer.
-
- If you want to draw icons yourself you can use the icon templates on the
- picture file "Templates.ilbm" in the "Pictures" drawer.
-
-
- Mouse Pointers
- --------------
-
- NOTE: Users of ME 1.2 can skip this chapter since the mouse pointers
- haven't changed.
-
- In this package are several 4 and 8 color mouse pointers for OS 2.x
- users. Of course OS 3.x users can use them, too, but the pointers were
- drawn for lo-res sprites. All the mouse pointers use at least one color
- for anti-aliasing. Since the resolution is very low you need
- anti-aliasing!
-
- You'll find a few busy- (or sleepy-) pointers and -animations, too. They
- can be used with the BusyPointer prefs editor from the NickPrefs package
- which is included in the MagicWB package.
-
- NOTE: If you want to use the bee (or its animation) as busy pointer you
- have to use a mouse pointer that uses the color yellow because the busy
- pointer uses the same colors as the normal mouse pointer. Otherwise you
- will get a lilac bee or something like that :)
-
- If you are an OS 2.x user and you want to use the 8 color pointers, you
- can't load and save them with the Pointer prefs editor, since it
- processes only 4 color sprites. So you have to copy the pointer you want
- to use directly to "ENVARC:sys/pointer.ilbm" (or to
- "ENV:sys/pointer.ilbm" if you only want to USE it):
-
- Copy MagicExpansion/Pointers/XXX TO ENVARC:sys/pointer.ilbm
-
- (You must replace XXX with the name of the mouse pointer.)
-
-
- Palettes
- --------
-
- NOTE: Users of ME 1.2 can skip this part, too :-(
-
- You got a few color palettes with this packages. These color palettes
- should be alternatives to the original MagicWB palette. The palettes
- exist as old-style OS 2.x ".pre" files and as OS 3.x ".ilbm" files. The
- installation script will install the right palettes for you, so you
- don't have to care about this.
-
- The color palettes "OriginalPalette.pre" and "OriginalPalette.ilbm" are
- the original MagicWB palettes.
-
-
- Patterns
- --------
-
- There are a few background patterns in this package for the WBPicture
- prefs editor of the NickPrefs package or for the WBPattern prefs editor
- of OS 3.x and a few old-style window patterns for the WBPattern prefs
- editor of OS 2.x.
-
- The background patterns use the original MagicWB palette, so OS 2.x
- users can use them immediatly without converting.
-
-
- MUI Brushes
- -----------
-
- The package contains 6 sets of MUI brushes (so called "MUI image sets"):
-
- "Jojo_Black_11pt",
- "Jojo_Black_13pt",
- "Jojo_3D_11pt",
- "Jojo_3D_13pt",
- "Jojo_Outline_11pt",
- "Jojo_Outline_13pt",
- "Jojo_Blue_11pt",
- "Jojo_Blue_13pt" and
- "Jojo_TapeDeck".
-
- The image sets should be used with a 11 or 13 pixel font.
-
- The image set "Jojo_Black_11pt" contains images for arrows, all kinds of
- popup objects, checkmarks, radio buttons, cycle gadgets, the assign and
- network symbols and the tape pause symbol.
-
- The other sets only contain the images which are different to the images
- in "Jojo_Black_11pt". Except of the tape pause, assign and network
- images, all images look like XEN-buttons (button gadgets with XEN
- frames). The tape pause symbol contains simply two vertical bars instead
- of one.
-
- If you want the images to look best, do the following:
-
- - Use a screen with at least 8 colors and a width similar to the height
- (e.g. 640x512).
-
- - Use the MagicWB color palette (or a color palette of this package :)
-
- - Use a 11 or 13 pixel font for screen text (The best font is Martin's
- XHelvetica.font).
-
- - Start the MUI prefs editor.
-
- - Chose "XEN Lo" or "XEN Hi" from the "Edit/Presets" sub menu.
-
- - Change the images to the images in "Jojo_Black_..", "Jojo_3D_..",
- "Jojo_Outline_.." or "Jojo_Blue.." (page "Images").
-
- - If you don't have MagicWB (Why do you have MagicExpansion??) change
- the font names from "XHelvetica" to "helvetica" (page "Fonts").
-
- You'll find an ILBM format picture file called "JojoMBrKit.ilbm" in the
- "Pictures" drawer. This picture conatins all the images of the sets. You
- can use this file as model for your own MUI brushes.
-
-
- C Include File
- --------------
-
- The include file conatins some useful macro definitions for shorter and
- nicer source code:
-
- - New macros for adding/removing children to/from their parent objects.
-
- - New gadget types: ...UInteger...(), ...SInteger...(), ...Note(),
- KeyPopupButton(), ...ToggleButton(), ...Note(), Number() and Text()
-
- - New label type ...CLabel() for centered labels
-
- - New spacing macros: HBar, VBar, HBarFixed(), VBarFixed()
-
- - "Wt" version for some gadget macros (additional weight argument)
-
- - New Slider-macros: ...VSlider(), Quiet...Slider()
-
- If you want to use the ...Integer...() or ...Note() macros of the
- include file, you have to insert the following code before the first
- macro call:
-
- TEXT acceptSNumbers[] = ACCEPTSNUMBERS; /* For ..SInteger...() */
- TEXT acceptUNumbers[] = ACCEPTUNUMBERS; /* For ..UInteger...() */
- TEXT acceptNotes[] = ACCEPTNOTES; /* For ....Note() */
-
- I haven't inserted the lines in the include file because so you can load
- the include file into GST files (with the SAS/C compiler) for example.
-
-
- Char Sets
- ---------
-
- The package contains 4 color char sets. The char sets are ideal for your
- own icon or background projects, bacause they use the MagicWB palette.
- The following fonts are in the package:
-
- - Helvetica/23
- - Hevletica/23 plain
- - Times/21
- - Times/21 plain
-
- The fonts don't exist as normal color fonts but every char exists as a
- single IFF/ILBM brush. The reason is, that I haven't got a tool to
- convert brushes to fonts. I would know a tool, but this tool is
- Shareware and it's so bad that I won't pay the shareawre fee. If you
- have written such a program or if you know a nice tool (which has a MUI
- GUI :) it would be nice, if you tell me its name or if you send it to me
- on disk.
-
-
- Installation
- ************
-
- NOTE: You need the Commodore Installer to install the package. The
- Installer is included in many commercial software packages and in the
- MUI package.
-
- To install simply double-click one of the icons in the "Install" drawer.
- Since you read the English documentation you will probably use the
- script "Install_ME13_English". After that you should do what the script
- tells you.
-
- The script won't install any icons so you have to update your old icons
- by hand. If you want to preserve position and tooltypes use "IconUpdate"
- from MagicWB or the tool "MUI_IconUpdate" (Freeware) which does the same
- job but has a MUI GUI. (Re)Read the MagicWB documentation for the usage
- of "IconUpdate".
-
-
- Copyright
- *********
-
- MagicExpansion is copyright © 1994 by Johannes Beigel. The package is
- Giftware (see chapter Introduction for details).
-
- You are allowed to spread MagicExpansion all over the world using email,
- disks, CD-Rom or any other medium but you must spread the *whole*
- package. You should use the original ".lha" file called
- "MagicExpansion_13.lha".
-
- You aren't allowed to take more than DM 5,- or US$ 5,- for it (including
- disk and copying costs but not the postage).
-
- If you want to include files from this package into non-commercial
- software (Shareware, Freeware, Giftware, Crippleware, ...) you have to
- send the product to me (address see chapter Introduction).
-
- If you want to include this package (or parts of it) into a commercial
- product you *have* to contact me.
-
-
- Thanks
- ******
-
- I want to thank the following persons:
-
- - Stefan Stuntz for his MagicUserInterface. I think this is the best
- Amiga software product since years!
-
- - Martin Huttenloher and all the other painters for their MagicWB icons
- and backgrounds.
-
- - ICP-Verlag (AmigaPlus) and Cloanto for "PersonalPaint 2.1" with which
- all icons, brushes, palettes, patterns, char sets and pointers
- were made.
-
- - All MUI programmers who make MUI more and more popular.
-
- - Martin Schulze fpr everything
-
-