1 The Graphical User Interface

Die standardmäßig mitgelieferte Oberfläche "Workbench" ist nur die Grundlage zum Aufbau einer guten, angenehmen Oberfläche.

Zu diesem Zweck gibt es zahlreiche Tools, die den Anwendern das Leben erleichtern. Einige von diesem findet man auf dem Aminet in den Verzeichnissen ‘util/#?/’.

2 What is MUI?

MUI is a set of shared libraries which are used to build a comfortable GUI (Graphical user interface). The general idea of MUI is that the programmer determines only the logical structure of the GUI and the look (Font, Size, Windows on Workbench, Public Screen, own Screen, ...) is determined by the user only. From the programmers point of view using MUI is simpler than gadtools.library but much more powerful. On the other hand MUI interfaces are slower than GadTools-Interfaces, especially on old 68000 machines.

MUI is found in two archives, one for developers only and one for users. Source: Aminet, ‘dev/misc’.

2.1 Icon collections and Backgrounds

The standard icons aren’t beautiful, indeed. But there do exist some beautiful icon collections. I know of MagicWB and NewIcons.

MagicWB is Shareware. The icons are drawn beautiful in pastel with every known trick. You also get a lot of good backgrounds which beautify workbench windows and MUI programs. Fine and good readable fonts replace the clumsy topaz8 font. You also get good icons for the ToolManager. You can find a test version of MagicWB on Aminet.

NewIcons is Freeware. The icons do have relative intensive colors and are drawn as three dimensional objects floating slanted in space. You can find NewIcons on Aminet, ‘util/wb/NewIcons.lha’.

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How do I turn off the "Gag" of MagicWorkbench (the intro which appears sometimes during booting)?

A:

In S: should be a file called ‘mti.data’. Delete it.

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How can I create NewIcons?

A:

The author of NewIcon currently works on an IconEd. Until then, Iconian 2.9x (I3) is the only way to create NewIcons.

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How can I prevent MagicWorkbench Icons to appear in incorrect colors?

A:

Register MagicWB 2.0, it contains a tool which patches the palette, or get one of the different tools from Aminet.

MagicColors

ShoveColors

Its a good program, you can find it in Iconian, PictIcon or ‘Aminet:util/wb/’).

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