Greg's Buttons is a control panel that lets you customize the user interface
of a Macintosh running System 7™. Greg's Buttons requires that your Mac
support color, so it won't work on the Plus, SE, Classic, or PowerBook 100.
It works fine with both color and gray-scale monitors, and although it will
still work on a black and white screen, the effect won't be as impressive.
LIST OF FEATURES
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• Replaces the standard flat black and white push buttons, check boxes, and
radio buttons with tasteful 3-D color ones. These buttons are designed to
complement the windows and scroll bars in the System 7 interface, and in
particular they use the color tints that you can select in the "Color"
control panel. You can choose from two styles of push buttons and three
styles each of radio buttons and check boxes. There is also an option to
draw the text of push buttons using an "embossed" style.
• Substitutes a font of your choice (chosen from Palatino and two versions
of Helvetica) for Chicago as your system font. The system font is used in
menus, window titles, dialog boxes, and several other places throughout
the Mac interface. Note that this feature does more than just changing
the menu font. Also note that this feature has nothing to do with the
"Views" control panel, which changes the font in Finder™ windows.
• Lets you select the background color of dialog boxes, menus (both the
text and background colors), and Finder™ windows. Since the dialog box
colorization feature is known to cause some unavoidable aesthetic
conflicts, there is an "Exclude Applications…" button which lets you
specify applications in which the dialog boxes should not be colorized.
• Colorizes the mini icons (the smallest size that you can select in the
"Views" control panel) in Finder™ list views (View by Name, Date, Size,
Kind, Label, Version, Comment, Favorite Melon, Astrological Sign, Sexual
Preference, etc.).
• Colorizes the stop sign, caution, and note alert icons.
• Changes to "Greg's Buttons" setting will take effect as soon as you close
the control panel.
CHANGES (since v3.1)
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• Fixed conflict with the Now Menus application substitution feature.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
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"They don't look like buttons unless they're Greg's Buttons."
"Apple should have included it in the Macintosh system software."
"I can't imagine my Macintosh without Greg's Buttons."
— Shiny Happy Registered-Users Holding Mice
"Without your [buttons] our success would not have been possible
during the past year." — Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc.
"I won the MacTutor Programming Challenge" — My newest t-shirt
REGISTRATION
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"Greg's Buttons" is SHAREWARE. You may try it out for ten days. If after that time, you think it is a frivolous waste of processor time and disk space, just take a good look at your Mac without Greg's Buttons. It will look dull, Dull, DULL! If you want to keep it, you should register as follows: