BMUG Revelations/BMUG Revelations.toast/Utilities/System Utility/DepthGauge 2.5.4/DepthGauge/DepthGauge.rsrc/STR#_200.txt

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of you who buy one of Happy's albums.  Spread the word!

shareware fee.  And a very special thanks to those

A special thanks to those of you who sent in the



compatibility problems.

V2.5.4 (11/13/91)  Fixed System 7.0.1

Change from shareware to EctoWare.

better compatibility with non-Apple video cards.

with the video cards directly.  This also allows

memory every time it is called.  Instead we talk

No longer use HasDepth at all, as it eats up system

DepthMenu help routines for increased reliability.

V2.5.3 (10/15/91)  Rewrote the dialog and

the pixel-depth changes permanent.

V2.5.2b (3/9/91) Finally added an option to make

changed a little.

HasDepth system call. Interface and help text

potential system-heap-eating bug caused by Apple's

pop-up speed much faster and thus eliminating a

DepthMenu now builds menus at startup, making the

V2.5.1b (3/7/91) (Not officially released)

in this version no longer bombs MultiFinder v6.1b.

16-bit pixel-depth. And finally, the cdev about box

whereby the DepthMenu wouldn't let you set a

monitor in a multiple monitor setup. Also fixed bug

any location on the screen, and should work for any

V2.1.1b (12/28/90) DepthMenu will now pop up at

fixed 'vers' numbering error.

resource numbering problem (a cosmetic fix) and

V2.0.2 (11/29/90) New help system, fixed 'ICN#'

coloring the new icons.

special thanks to Mike Landis for designing and

switch pixel depth at any time. And of course,

V2.0.1 (11/20/90) Includes DepthMenu to let you

the current pixel-depth of the main device.

V1.0.2 (10/29/90) Startup ICON arrow indicates

features work and it doesn't crash.

V1.0.1 (10/25/90) First official release. All






• Change History •









11/13/91.

Menlo Park, CA

Daniel A. Segel

Los Angeles, CA

Thomas A. Johnson



Portions copyright 1990-1991 Symantec Corp.



responsibilty for the quality of this product.

Aural Gratification neither assumes or accepts any

Gratification as a result of sales of Happy's music.

We receive no monetary considerations from Aural



good work.

their projects - we have taken full advantage of his

the Disinfectant code available for others to use in

utility Disinfectant. He has kindly made a portion of

University, the author of the terrific anti-viral

written by John Norstad of Northwestern

Portions of this Help system are based upon code



AppleLink access).

[e-mail] (add "@internet#" after ".edu" for

currently available at internet address

and internet address [e-mail]. Tom is

GEnie at "D.SEGEL", America OnLine at "Dan Segel",

If you have any comments, I can be reached through



THINK C V4.0 and 5.0

DepthGauge was written almost exclusively using



about these rules on later versions.

3) Tom and I reserve the right to change our minds

2) You may not distribute modified copies of DepthGauge.

software.

those companies selling disks of sharware/pd

any money from it.  This pertains especially to

1) You may not sell DepthGauge or in any way make



following rules regarding DepthGauge:

buy a Happy Rhodes album, and to keep in mind the

and not in the public domain. Tom and I want you to

Although DepthGauge is EctoWare, it is copyrighted



project and contributed various portions.

INIT. Both of us have subsequently worked on this

Segel and implemented by Thomas A. Johnson as an

DepthGauge was originally conceived by Daniel A.






• Legal and Other Info •





takes your Macintosh to start up.

but will not have a noticeable effect on the time it

this box off will result in a cleaner startup screen,

icon at the bottom of the screen at startup. Turning

Turn this box on if you want DepthGauge to show an



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• Show icon at startup •





from the control panel.

and will need to be reset by selecting "Monitors"

remove a video card this resource becomes invalid

the 'scrn' resource in the System file. If you add or

pixel-depth switch permanent. This option modifies

changes through restart" box to make your

may not fully appear. Click the "Keep pixel-depth

DepthMenu too close to the bottom of a screen, or it

allowed for that monitor. Don't try to pop up the

system, and will show the pixel-depth settings

will pop up on any monitor in a multiple monitor

keys off to disable the DepthMenu. The DepthMenu

DepthMenu when you click the mouse. Turn all the

Sets which keys need to be pressed to pop up the



 

 

 

 

 


 






• DepthMenu Setup ••





what color you want the number to be drawn in.

up the standard Color Picker and lets you choose

color to the default menu title color. Custom brings

ClickChange(tm), for example), and sets the number

cdev from Apple or commercial utilities like

used for colorized menus (as created by the Kolor

Color popup menu. Black is black. The 'mctb' item is

Select the color the number is drawn in from the



on your menu bar.

if you don't want the pixel-depth number to appear

radio button in the cdev. Click the "Off" radio button

number will appear in by clicking on the appropriate

You can choose which corner of the menu bar the



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• Location and Color Setup •





always be one of the pixel-depths listed above.)

returned by the operating system (which will

channel, and reports the current pixel-depth

presumptions about the implementation of an alpha

of data for color. DepthGauge doesn't make any

for color, and "32-bit color" is only using 24 bits

"16-bit color" is really only using 15 bits of data

displaying color. What is commonly referred to as

The bits used in the alpha channel have no part in

special effects such as transparency or overlays.

data structure that are sometimes utilized for

Alpha channels are extra bits in a video card's color



32 bits = Millions of colors (24 bits color + 8 bit alpha)

16 bits = 32768 colors (15 bits color + 1 bit alpha)

8  bits = 256 colors

4 bits = 16 colors

2 bits = 4 colors

1 bit = Black & White






• bits-per-pixel -> Colors table •





OK, now back to DepthGauge.



let us know.

or send some e-mail to [e-mail] and

If you order an album, please drop one of us a line,



     cs.rutgers.edu in pub/hr

archives are available via anonymous ftp on:

GIF Files, lyrics to all of the albums, and the ecto



     [e-mail]

If you wish to contribute, you can mail to:

     [e-mail]

join, send mail to:

music, and other common interests. If you wish to

any and all topics pertaining to Happy Rhodes, her

There is an internet mailing list which discusses



Happy is now or where she started.

depending on whether you want to hear where

choose either "Warpaint" or "Rhodes Vol 1",

Which one should you choose?  We would first



deal in Macintosh software ever!

(postage is included).  This just may be the best

8 pounds per cassette and 11 pounds per CD

tax (currently 7%).  The price in English pounds is

you are a New York resident, you must add sales

If you chose a tape, the cost would be $11.49.  If

order just the CD, the total cost would be $15.99.

$1.50, and additional tape is $0.35. If you were to

Postage for the CD is $2.00, postage for one tape is

The CD is $13.99  and the tapes are $9.99 each.



and compact disc.

cassette.  "Warpaint" is available on both cassette

2", "Rearmament", "Ecto") are only available on

The first four albums ("Rhodes Vol 1", "Rhodes Vol



     Albany, NY 12208

     Academy Station

     P.O. Box 8658

     c/o  Aural Gratification

     EctoWare Payment

     Happy Rhodes

To order Happy's music, write to:






• Ordering info •





one of our favorite artists.

we'll get a chance to hear some more music from

Happy becomes famous and wins a record contract,

to spread the word about Happy's music, and if

Macintosh utility, but also a CD?) We get the chance

time you spent about $15 and got not only a great

but a cassette or CD as well.  (When was the last

get not only the best pixel depth switching utility,

This way we all get something out of the deal.  You



album and give it to someone you love.

stuff, then buy another copy of your favorite HR

one more fan.   If you already have all of Happy's

software will have been worth it if Happy gets just

album. All the time we spent developing this

to Aural Gratification, and order a Happy Rhodes

disc.  We want you to mail off a check, not to us but

We want you to buy yourself a tape or compact






• What do we really want? •





hope you will take advantage of our offer.

everyone aware of Happy's wonderful music.  We

We came upon the idea of EctoWare to help make



Gratification label, run by Kevin and Happy.

stores, and directly from the independent Aural

available through only a few visionary music

everyone.  In the meantime, Happy's material is

and ears and give her a chance to be heard by

perhaps the powers-that-be will open their eyes

and more people become aware of her music,

we have very high hopes for her future.  As more

because she is not an artist easily categorized, but

Happy does not yet have a record contract, perhaps



releases, through the power and polish of the last.

albums, from the earlier, more self-searching

releases by major studios.  We love all of Happy's

the first four albums — the recording quality rivals

"Warpaint" is more professionally recorded than

number of additional musicians on various cuts.

mainly Happy and Kevin on keyboards, with a

Happy and her partner Kevin Bartlett, features

latest album "Warpaint", which was produced by

most of the recording and engineering herself.  The

wrote all the music, produced all the songs, and did

keyboards, lead and backing vocals.  In addition she

The first four albums feature Happy alone on guitar,



5) Warpaint (1991)

4) Ecto (1987)

3) Rearmament (1986)

2) Rhodes Vol. II (1986)

1) Rhodes Vol. I (1986)

last five years:

Happy has recorded a total of five albums over the



amazing effectiveness.

quite high (like Kate Bush) — which she uses with

huge range — from very low (like Annie Lennox) to

beauty.  She has a truly wonderful voice, with a

often autobiographical songs full of emotion and

Happy Rhodes.  Happy writes powerful, moving,

talented singer-songwriter from Albany, named

We have both become very big fans of an incredibly






• What is EctoWare? •





first EctoWare product in computer history.

Our solution?  DepthGauge has become the very



probably the case.

want to try something different.  We think this is

something more.  You're bored with ShareWare and

trouble of sending in the shareware fee.  You want

4.  You weren't getting enough for the time and

you are honest.

not our favorite reason.  We believe that most of

3.  There are no honest Macintosh users.  Definitely

have asked for $10 or $20.

such a small amount of money.  Maybe we should

perceived value of DepthGauge by only asking for

for only a dollar.  We may have lowered the

nobody finds it worthwhile to register something

2.  We should have asked for more money.  Maybe

favorite reason.

1.  DepthGauge isn't worth a dollar.  Not our



virtually no response:

several possible reasons for why we received

We thought this over and decided that there were



people have sent in shareware fees.

DepthGauge.  As of this moment a grand total of 10

is that at least 2000 people have downloaded

archives.  Our latest (very conservative) estimate

commercial networks and various Internet

the mail.  We posted DepthGauge to several

envelope, stick in the bill, stamp it and drop it in

money order.  All you had to do was address an

off.  No need to write out a check, no need to get a

one dollar bill ($1.00) into an envelope and mail it

to register--all we asked was that the user put a

wanted to make it as simple as possible for people

the general public as a piece of shareware.  We

good things about it that we decided to release it to

personal use but so many people told us so many

DepthGauge began as a utility we wrote for our own






• ShareWare No More •





4)  More for your money.  See below.



were done ray tracing.

forgot to switch from 24 bit mode to 8 bit when you

then you glance in the menu bar and see that you

are wondering why scrolling is going so slow, and

3)  Depth indicator in the menu bar.  Imagine:  you



non-Apple cards.

trap.  This results in much better compatibility with

resources, rather than relying on a buggy toolbox

system routines to talk directly to the video card

video hardware.  We rewrote some of the standard

2)  Better compatibility with various 3rd party



Keep doing this long enough and you'll crash your machine.

bar move to the right, indicating a memory leak.

Pop up their menus enough times and you'll see the

in the "About this Macintosh" window in the finder.

other utilities while watching the System Heap bar

heap each time they are used.  Try one of those

switching utilities eat up memory in the System

in one of Apple's toolbox traps, most other depth

1)  No memory eating bugs.  Due to an apparent bug



is by far the best in it's class.  Here's why:

many imitators have appeared. We feel DepthGauge

Since the first release of DepthGauge in 1990,






• Why DepthGauge is best •





external color monitor...

there isn't much use for it if you don't have an

DepthGauge will work just fine on an SE/30, but



QuickDraw and System 6.0.5 or later.

DepthGauge requires the presence of Color



changes to the pixel-depth of a monitor.

allows for permanent (i.e. through a restart)

in the control panel. This version of DepthGauge

your system without going to the "Monitors" cdev

that lets you switch the pixel depth of any screen in

DepthGauge also includes a popup menu (DepthMenu)

bits-per-pixel setting of your main video device.

your menu bar representing the current

DepthGauge is an INIT/cdev that puts a number on



This is the eighth official release of DepthGauge.






• Description of DepthGauge •





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November 13, 1991






V2.5.4 Final Release




DepthGauge