| From: | Marion E. Wyatt |
| Date: | 9 May 2000 at 06:35:06 |
| Subject: | Re: Tacky Backdrops!!! |
On 08-May-00 at 02:44:43, Don Cox wrote these words of wisdom:
> On 08-May-00, Marion E. Wyatt wrote:
>
>>>
>>> Of course if you change the screen size of your Workbench frequently
>>> this won't do, but mine stays the same size for long periods.
>>
>> Mine does too, but I get pictures that I want to use as backdrops and
>> I don't wanna resize and change them by adding borders and such... It
>> is easier if the prfs program can intelligently(?) add a colored
>> border around an image too small to fill the screen or scale it to fit
>> on the fly. CGWBPattern did all these. I want to be lazy and not have
>> to do this in an image processing program (I could easily do it in
>> ImageFX if I desired).
>
> But if you want Workbench to do your image processing, booting will take
> longer.
Not noticably longer to me. :-)
> I keep the processed pictures in a drawer on the Workbench partition.
> Processing is no big deal - how often do you change your background? In
> my case it involves about 5 minutes work every couple of months (when
> some picture turns up that looks suitable).
Pretty often.. sometimes weekly. I've even though of daily or every boot
with a random option. Perhaps I should look at the new OS3.5 friendly
FastIPrefs for some of these options (though not all that CGWBPattern did
AFAIK). I just hav been trying to stick as close to OS3.5 as possible.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
You have a voice mail message waiting for you at iHello.com:
http://click.egroups.com/1/3555/3/_/644178/_/957850521/
------------------------------------------------------------------------