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Short: Draws an outline on your Workbench icon text.
Author: Daniel Nyberg (daniel@dalnet.se>
Uploader: Daniel Nyberg (daniel@dalnet.se)
Version: 1.0
Type: util/wb
This is an utility I wrote some time ago, just after I bought a
CyberVision64 graphics board. I was annoyed by the fact that the
font text was almost unreadable with some background images. So
I quickly wrote this util that draws an thin outline around the
icon texts. The outline can be of any colour and width. I prefer
a black outline, 1 pixel wide, and with white text.
I have included a screen shot from my Workbench showing how it will
look like once you got it installed.
Requirements:
AmigaOS 3.0 or higher.
68020 or better.
Installation:
Copy OulineFont to c:, or add a path to the OutlineFont
directory.
Start Prefs/Font
Choose "Select Workbench Icon text..."
Select the font and field colour you want.
The field colour will be used for the outline.
Select mode "Text+Field".
Select OK; and save the font settings.
Add "run >nil: OutlineFont <text> <field> <width>" to
your startup-sequence, before LoadWB.
"<text>" is the palette number of the text colour you
choosed in Prefs/Font.
"<field>" is the fiels colour.
"<width>" is the outline width.
Example: "run >nil: OutlineFont 2 1 1"
This will use colour 2 for the text and 1 for the outline.
The outline width will be 1 pixel. If you are using the
standard Workbench or MagicWB palette this will give you
a white font text with a black border.
This is just a quick "hack", and could be done much better. Please feel
free to improve it, or write a completely new OutlineFont util.
I have included the crappy, badly coded source. It's based on some example
code in some RKM or NDU, I think. It's been over a year since I touched
it.
I don't have the time, nor the motivation to spend any more time on this...
Anyway, I hope it works on your system as good as it does on mine. :)
It's been tested on the following systems:
A4000, CyberStorm060, 32 MB FastRAM, CyberVision64 in 8/16/24-bit.
A4000/030, 16MB FastRam, AGA in 1-8 bit modes.
The screen shot is from my Workbench running in 800x600 24-bit.
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4528 2599 42.6% 09-Aug-95 14:29:24 +OutlineFont
2180 1119 48.6% 13-Oct-96 18:25:54 +OutlineFont.readme
1451 557 61.6% 13-Oct-96 17:54:36 +OutlineFont.readme.info
1233 734 40.4% 13-Oct-96 17:54:36 +Source.info
1397 699 49.9% 13-Oct-96 17:18:36 +Build.info
2632 1711 34.9% 26-Dec-94 21:21:48 +Debug
1387 739 46.7% 13-Oct-96 17:18:36 +Debug.info
1394 804 42.3% 13-Oct-96 17:18:36 +Edit.info
1398 710 49.2% 13-Oct-96 17:18:36 +Find.info
10640 3411 67.9% 09-Aug-95 14:40:06 +OutlineFont.c
3501 559 84.0% 13-Oct-96 17:18:36 +OutlineFont.c.info
242 156 35.5% 08-Aug-95 21:26:30 +OutlineFont_stubs.asm
3501 566 83.8% 13-Oct-96 17:18:36 +OutlineFont_stubs.asm.info
124 110 11.2% 08-Aug-95 21:28:04 +OutlineFont_stubs.o
86 86 0.0% 08-Aug-95 22:19:28 +SCOPTIONS
1674 920 45.0% 13-Oct-96 17:18:36 +SCOPTIONS.info
116140 116140 0.0% 13-Oct-96 16:37:32 +WBShot.jpeg
3863 2963 23.2% 13-Oct-96 17:54:36 +WBShot.jpeg.info
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