This is a demo of Wallpaper Light & Dark™, which is a commercial product. The demo disk may be distributed, but only intact, with no changes in the program or accompanying files. No money may be charged for this demo or its distribution or duplication. Inquiries about special situations, as well as orders for Wallpaper, can be made to Thought I Could at (212) 673-9724.
Wallpaper has no known incompatabilities, uses a trivial amount of RAM, and was written with safety in mind. It doesn't modify the System file. You'll be able to use most of the features of Wallpaper in this demo, including the wrap-around graphical editor, the Pattern Grabber Tool and randomization. You'll even be able to make your own patterns, though not save them to disk, and the pattern won’t stay on your screen with the demo, though it will with the commercial program, of course.
This demo was created and is being distributed with the intent of allowing you to take a good look at Wallpaper Light & Dark, so that if you like it, you’ll buy it. We hope that everyone who uses Wallpaper will buy Wallpaper. We often have special pricing. Call or write:
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Wallpaper Light & Dark carries a retail price of $69.99 + S&H (S&H = $6 US, $8 Canada, $10 Europe, $15 Asia and Australia). We are able to take AMEX, VISA, MC, checks or money orders for US funds and COD orders. It ships with over 600 desktop patterns. Wallpaper Zebra Edition™ ships with all black-and-white patterns, for those with monochrome monitors. You can purchase Wallpaper directly from us or from mail order and retail outlets: MacWarehouse, MacConnection, Mac Zone, Mac's Place, Software Etc, Computer Attic, Computer City, and Egghead.
We also have Pattern Subscriptions available for those Wallpaper owners who want even more patterns. Subscription One ,Two and Three each consist of two compressed disks of patterns, and each costs $25 in the US and $32 outside the US. Add $15 if you aren't a registered Wallpaper owner. Those subscribing to two consecutive subscriptions receive a bonus disk. Each disk contains a few hundred patterns, the subscriptions each have about 450 patterns, the third will be about the same size and there's about 150 more on each bonus disk. There are no duplicate patterns and there's a wide range of excellent patterns on all the subscription disks. Many soft textures, cool marbles, tiles, foliage, grayscales, monochromes, many scans from Wraptures One CD-ROM and other sources, and many outstanding original drawn works. The subscription disks are a great buy.
Our Wallpaper Wraptures Two™ Disk of patterns consist of patterns derived from the Wraptures Two CD-ROM disc. Primarily, natural images like woods, marbles, crystal, glass, plants, tiles and clouds. And, jelly beans, cherries, potatoes and chocolate icing. This disk of patterns (60 images, each in 128 pixels square and 64 pixels square) costs $19.95 + $6 S&H US for Wallpaper owners.
Great Art One disk of patterns consist of patterns derived from great art. Ancient Egypt, Japan, China, as well as Matisse, Van Gogh, Rembrandt and Nolde are represented. Over 160 patterns, all 128 size, $29.99 + 6 S&H US for Wallpaper owners.
CAL is our latest product. Retailing at $79.95 + $6 S&H, it is a talking CALculator and CALendar, which also takes speech recognition input. It will stop you from making mistakes in the CALculator and Formula Editor by immediately repeating the information you have entered in a male or female voice or any voice you create yourself. The appearance and color and size is also customizable (you can have large type, colored type and even choose your typeface), and CAL also can use Wallpaper patterns in its background display. CALculator and Formula Editor have tapes which can be printed; CALculator’s tapes can be saved, named, imported and exported. The Datebook maintains and manages your schedule, including recurrent appointments, and uses an easy drag and drop interface. All four CAL modules function independently of each other but can be coordinated in appearance.
DEMO LIMITATIONS
We've limited this demo in eight ways, but it's otherwise identical to the commercial product. Demo limitations:
1. The desktop pattern installed each time you open Wallpaper will be restored each time you close Wallpaper’s window. Leave the window open to keep the pattern on your desktop or set randomization.
2. You can’t save new patterns or variations of the enclosed patterns to disk.
3. Randomization is temporally limited to two hours each time you set it. Then it will stop. Don't set it for more than two hours because it won't work.
4. Some applications are not included: Wallpaper in the Dark application, Wallpaper Hanger and Customiz-O-Matic. (Wallpaper in the Dark application: System 7 only, it has our screen saving displays built in, and also can run other modules from such as DarkSide, After Dark, Intermission. The application is System-friendly. Like Wallpaper, it doesn’t modify the System. Our screen saver displays offer thousands of variations. We don't have a demo of the Wallpaper in the Dark application, but a demo of the After Dark module is included on this disk. Wallpaper Hanger: you can double-click on one or many pattern files and Wallpaper Hanger will display them on desktop, allowing you to preview or install. Great for batch previewing. Not enclosed. Customiz-O-Matic: System 7 only, it installs and removes the patterns’ custom icons which display a swatch of each pattern, and it can convert single ppats to Wallpaper files. We include 22 sound files, an Extensions Manager, too, in the commercial package, but not here.)
5. This demo includes only a small sample of the desktop patterns that ship with Wallpaper and come on Wallpaper’s free supplementary disk for registered users.
6. There is no Easter Egg in the demo.
7. Wallpaper Demo can't copy to clipboard.
8. Wallpaper in the Dark module displays are limited to five minutes duration each time they are set.
Wallpaper™ is an interior decoration program for your Mac’s desktop, allowing you to display, create, edit and save an unlimited number of large desktop patterns in up to 256 colors or in black and white. You can make your own patterns either by utilizing the unique Wallpaper features or by working in your favorite graphics programs. If you don’t want to create your own patterns, you can choose among hundreds of desktop patterns which come with Wallpaper, and registered owners can subscribe to our subscription service to receive additional disks, which will contain many patterns (see Subscription and Contest notes).
Wallpaper is a Control Panel device, also known as a cdev, which provides expanded tools to help you generate and edit color patterns up to 128 pixels on a side, while the General cdev limits you to an 8x8 pixel pattern. You can store up to eleven desktop patterns for quick reference in the Wallpaper window itself, and save any number in external files. The patterns you create from the commercial program can be freely distributed and traded; they can be used by any Wallpaper owner.
WHAT IS WALLPAPER LIGHT& DARK?
The Wallpaper in the Dark component of the Wallpaper Light & Dark package consists of a package of two screen savers which are designed to display Wallpaper patterns in a large number of beautiful and customizable variations. Screen savers are used to keep your monitor from “burning in” or having one image permanently etched into the phosphors of your screen. They do this by covering the entire screen with a moving image. Wallpaper in the Dark application and the Wallpaper in the Dark module are both screen savers.
In addition to the two screen savers called Wallpaper in the Dark, the Wallpaper Light & Dark package also contains Wallpaper and over 600 Wallpaper patterns. Wallpaper in the Dark combines with Wallpaper to create comprehensive monitor care.
WALLPAPER IN THE DARK APPLICATION
Both Wallpaper in the Dark utilities are compatible with After Dark®. Wallpaper in the Dark application (Not included in this demo!) can run any number of screen saving modules that are external, but the exclusive built-in Wallpaper in the Dark module may be all you need. Wallpaper in the Dark application can open and run all DarkSide modules and After Dark screen saver modules. If you own After Dark you should be able to run all After Dark Berkeley modules from within the Wallpaper in the Dark application. You will also be able to run the third party After Dark modules.
The primary built-in module is the Wallpaper in the Dark module (it is available as a separate After Dark module and is included in demo on this disk), which displays a wide variety of wipes and arrays of Wallpaper patterns. This module has randomization features of its own, to vary the displays among its own several display types. The secondary module, “Random”, will randomize between whatever modules are open, during any time frame you establish. It is only useful if you’ve opened external modules. Wallpaper in the Dark module will be included in the randomization performed by Random module.
The Wallpaper in the Dark application offers password protection and an FKEY to activate the saver, too.
The overall philosophy of all Thought I Could products is to protect and respect the System software while providing the best quality software. One very popular screen saver patches 63 traps. This can lead to incompatabilities with other software and with future versions of the System software. In contrast, Wallpaper in the Dark application should be safe with regard to other software and stable with future System releases.
People who either do not own After Dark or who prefer using a System-friendly application, and who run System 7, may opt to run Wallpaper in the Dark application. If so, they should not install their copies of After Dark or Star Trek or Disney. But those who want to continue running Star Trek or Disney, will want to run the Wallpaper in the Dark module under their copies of Star Trek or Disney.
WALLPAPER IN THE DARK MODULE
Only the Wallpaper in the Dark module requires either After Dark, Star Trek, Disney or another program that runs After Dark modules, in order to run (you can have the same functionality without using After Dark by using the Wallpaper in the Dark application). When you run the Wallpaper in the Dark module under After Dark or Star Trek or Disney it functions under the rules and regulations of those control panels. If you already own one of those programs, see its manual for installation information.
The Wallpaper in the Dark module needs to be placed in the After Dark folder in your System folder if you are running it under After Dark.
When you select the Wallpaper in the Dark module, the first thing to do is to set up your preferences. The module requires that you have Wallpaper 1.5 or later installed in order to run, and it also requires that you have Wallpaper pattern files on a mounted volume. Inside either After Dark, Star Trek or the Wallpaper in the Dark application, the main settings window will show a preferences button.
Now click on the “Pattern Folder...” button and choose a folder on a volume that you keep mounted which either has Wallpaper patterns in it, or has folders with folders with patterns inside.
SETTING YOUR PATTERN FOLDER FOR THE SCREEN SAVERS
Wallpaper in the Dark can display patterns in order, if you use a single pattern folder, without selecting nested folders. Wallpaper in the Dark can select patterns randomly for the displays whether you use a single folder or nested folders. You can only use the “in order” option if you’re randomizing within a single folder.
Just like with the pattern files, you can keep your sounds anywhere you like. And, just like with selecting patterns, you can select one sound or a folder of sounds, or nested folders of sounds. You can use any sounds that are in any one of three formats. SoundMover suitcase, individual FSSD format sounds or System 7 sound files. If a sound suitcase with multiple sounds is the single sound and it is selected, Wallpaper in the Dark will select one sound from the suitcase when first invoked and play that sound at the start of each screen. If the same suitcase were the only file in the selected sound folder, Wallpaper in the Dark would select a single sound before each screen.
Wallpaper in the Dark has a limit on the size of sounds it will play for background effects. The maximum size is 23k. This allows at least one second of sound at the maximum sample rate.
The “Play Sounds” check box causes Wallpaper in the Dark to play a sound at the start of each screen and enables the related sound controls. Wallpaper in the Dark will either play a single sound or select a sound from a folder of sounds. Wallpaper in the Dark plays sounds from files of type “SFIL”, “sfil” and “FSSD”.
THE DISPLAYS
It is nice to set up your patterns as series or as contrasts. There are thousands of possibly displays and experimentation is the best way to find your favorites.
Plain display always completely fills the screen with one pattern. There are three types of blocks selected in this display; blocks that are vertical and as high as the screen, blocks that are horizontal and as wide as the screen, and alternating horizontal and vertical blocks that fill the screen starting at one corner.
Upright display partially fills the screen with one pattern. The blocks in this display are vertical and as high as the screen. Every other block is filled, painting half the screen.
Flat display partially fills the screen with one pattern. The blocks in this display are horizontal and as wide as the screen. Every other block is filled, painting half the screen.
Checker display partially fills the screen with one pattern and generally fills the rest of the screen with a second pattern. The blocks in this display are vertical and as high as the screen or horozontal and as wide as the screen. Each block is partially filled by filling every other tile. The tiles and blocks are selected so that the final pattern resembles the appearance of one color of a checkerboard. The alternate blocks are filled with a different pattern, creating the second color of the checkerboard. The combinations of this pattern can be especially fortuitous, if one sets up a folder of patterns with variations of a theme.
Mixed display partially fills the screen with one pattern. It sequences, selecting displays from the Upright, Flat, and Checker displays.
Fancy display always completely fills the screen with one pattern. The types of blocks selected in this display show a variety of complex sequences.
Tile display always completely fills the screen with two patterns. The types of blocks selected in this display show a variety sequences. The tiles are painted with alternating patterns resulting in a checkerboard like effect.
Catalog display always completely fills the screen with many patterns. There are two types of blocks selected in this display; blocks that are vertical and as high as the screen and blocks that are horizontal and as wide as the screen. Each block is displayed one tile at a time. A new pattern is chosen for each tile.
Quilt display always completely fills the screen with many patterns. The types of blocks selected display in a variety sequences. A new pattern is chosen for each block. One can achieve quite complex combinations with “quilt.”
Collage display always completely erases the screen at the start. All blocks are square, that means every block is also a tile. Each block is displayed at a random position on the screen, with a new pattern chosen for each block. The display may complete before the entire screen is filled. The blocks in a single display may be translucent, opaque or a mixture.
Dark display is a collage display with all blocks opaque.
Middle display is a collage display with mixed opaque and translucent blocks.
Light display is a collage display with all blocks translucent.
Random display selects one display after another from the above set. But when a collage display is selected, it is always Dark, with opaque blocks.
Size control doesn’t reflect the size of the pattern being displayed; it supports a range of tile sizes from 32 to 256 pixels. Selecting one of these will provide a consistent size tile for each screen. There are also two ranges, 32 to 128 and 32 to 256, and these select a new size for each screen. Maximum variety comes with the “Random” display and “32 to 128” size.
Speed control selects the display speed. The fastest is “Bullet” and it ranges down to “Trolley”. Some of the displays change slightly when the speed selected is “Local” or slower. For example, the “Fancy” and “Quilt” displays may work well with speeds “Local” or slower.
ON WHICH MACS DOES IT RUN?
Wallpaper runs on the SE/30, the LC series, Classic II, Color Classic, the Mac II series, the Quadra series, the Power PC’s, the Performa series, the Centris series, and all the PowerBooks except the 100. Wallpaper requires System 6.0.5 and above or System 7.0 or above.
HOW TO INSTALL WALLPAPER
Only one or two Wallpaper files have to be someplace special. For the rest, create a folder on your hard drive. Call it something like “Wallpaper Stuff Folder.” Put it on the root level (main window) of your hard drive, or anywhere else you like, except in the System Folder. Put the Wallpaper manual, ReadMe file and pattern files in the Wallpaper Stuff folder.
If you’re running the System 6 series of Mac System software on a Mac which doesn’t have 32-Bit Quick Draw built into ROM, (Mac II, IIx or IIcx and the SE/30), just drag the files called Wallpaper™ Demo and Apple’s 32-bit QuickDraw file, version 1.2 or later, into your System Folder. Restart, and Wallpaper is installed. You access it in the Control Panel desk accessory.
(If you’re running System 7.0 or later, or running a Mac with 32-Bit QuickDraw built into ROM like the IIci and above, you need not install Apple’s 32-bit QuickDraw file, because it is built into System 7 and/or into your Mac's ROMs. You can discard it.)
Under System 7, just drag Wallpaper™ Demo into your Control Panel Folder in your System Folder or drag it to the closed System Folder where the magic of System 7 will send Wallpaper to the right place. Then restart, and Wallpaper will be fully installed. You access Wallpaper by double-clicking on it inside the Control Panel Folder.
System 7 users can run Wallpaper from anywhere on their Macs, but if you don’t choose to keep it in your Control Panel Folder and restart, you won’t be able to utilize the features of the Wallpaper INIT: Wallpaper will lack the randomization feature.
The first time you run Wallpaper it will access or build a preferences file called Wallpaper Settings inside the System Folder or Preferences Folder. The Wallpaper Settings file retains the patterns you position in the Stored-Pattern Spaces, Editor and desktop in the Wallpaper window, and it retains the preferences you set in the Wallpaper menu preference choices.
Here are some illustrations for installation of the program under System 7. The installation for the Wallpaper Demo is the same as for the commercial program:
1. Drag the “Wallpaper™ Demo” file onto your System Folder icon and let go. Click “OK” in the resulting Alert box.
Note: Do not drag “Wallpaper™ Demo” onto the open System Folder window. Be sure to drag it onto the System Folder icon.
2. Restart your Macintosh to activate Wallpaper.
Congratulations! Wallpaper is installed. Now we’ll go on to place a Wallpaper pattern onto the desktop.
3. Choose “Control Panels” from your Apple menu.
4. Double-click on the “Wallpaper™ Demo” icon
5. The first time Wallpaper loads, it displays an animated personalization screen. Type your name into the space provided and click the “Personalize” button. Wallpaper will automatically sign the name you enter here on any patterns you create or modify.
6. When Wallpaper’s main window comes up, click on the lower left icon and type a lowercase “L”.
7. Using the standard file dialog, first navigate to your hard drive, then to a folder that has patterns inside:
8. When you highlight a pattern file in the list of files on the left of the dialog, a preview of the pattern image will appear in the preview box of the standard file dialog. Click on the square preview button to see what the pattern looks like on the desktop. Click “Open” when you decide on the pattern you like…
…and the pattern you picked is now displayed on your desktop!
HOW TO REMOVE WALLPAPER DEMO
To remove Wallpaper from your Macintosh, drag both Wallpaper and the Wallpaper Settings file out of the System Folder (System 6 series) or remove Wallpaper from the Control Panel Folder and Wallpaper Settings from the Preferences Folder (System 7 series) and restart. That’s it. Wallpaper has been de-installed. Since Wallpaper doesn’t modify your System file, you never have to worry about after-effects.
INTRODUCING THE WALLPAPER WINDOW
To open Wallpaper in the Control Panel desk accessory, under the System 6 series choose Control Panel from the Apple (Desk Accessory) menu. Using the scroll bar on the left, inside the Control Panel, scroll through the icons representing your cdevs. When you see the Wallpaper icon, click on it once to select it. Wallpaper’s window will appear.
If you’re using System 7 or later, double-click on the Wallpaper file in the Control Panel folder in the System Folder. Wallpaper’s window will appear.
One time only, you’ll be greeted by a Wallpaper personalization screen. Enter your name the way you want it to appear on the patterns you edit. Your name will be automatically signed to any pattern you edit or create just as you’ve entered it in this personalization dialog. Once you’ve entered your name, you’ll arrive at the Wallpaper window, which will open with all pattern positions empty except for the ones representing your desktop and Easel, which will show your current desktop pattern.
The image of the Little Mac Monitor (LMM) at the left always displays the current desktop pattern, the one in which your screen desktop is painted. Patterns displayed in the LMM, and in all the Wallpaper pattern positions, will be saved in their positions when the Wallpaper window is closed.
The Little Mac Monitor and eleven other spaces in the window provide additional functions. Double-clicking on any pattern will bring up that pattern’s Signature/Personalization Dialog, as will the keyboard character “I,” allowing you to name your pattern internally. Then, you can ordinarily save to disk in one of four ways (you cannot save from this demo, though).
The image of the Little Mac CPU (LMC) at the bottom left facilitates the Load and Save command. You can double-click on the LMC to load patterns to desktop. Also, if you drag it to any of the double-outlined boxes, you’ll get a load dialog for that box. For example, if you drag it to the LMM, you’ll load to the desktop. If you drag it to the Easel, you’ll load to the Editor, and if you drag it to any of the Stored-Pattern Spaces, you will load any pattern you select from the load dialog to that indicated space. On the other hand, if you drag a pattern to the LMC from any position in the Wallpaper window, you’ll bring up a Save dialog (not operational in this demo).
The Easel, to the right of the Little Mac CPU, displays a true-size view of the pattern being edited. Select it (click on it once) and type “L” to load to it from disk, or drag the LMC to it to bring up the same Load Dialog, or drag a pattern to it from any other position in the Wallpaper window to install it in the Editor.
The Pattern Editor (the Editor) displays a magnified view of the pattern shown in the Easel. You may draw in the Editor in four degrees of magnification via the Zoom commands or the magnifying glass tool to create or edit a pattern while you simultaneously view the full size of the pattern in the Easel. The Editor displays the pattern magnified from full size to 16 times size. At 100% view in the Editor, you will be able to see more than one copy of any pattern under 128x128 in size.
In the Editor you can view and work in up to five different pattern sizes. Under the System 6 series your patterns can be 8x8, 16x16, 32x32 or 64x64 pixels on a side. Under System 7.0, you can also use 128x128 pixel patterns. You can scroll your view in the Editor forever in any direction, can see and draw over the dividing lines between the repetitions of a pattern.
The Editor features wrap-around graphics. The dividers and the zoomed-out view let you work effectively with the repetitions of your patterns because you can see multiple views as you work. The tools work not only across the dividers, they also wrap around the image in the Editor. Drag your tool off the boundaries of the Editor and even off the edge of the Wallpaper window.
When creating a pattern, you can start with a clean area by selecting a color in the Color Selector and then dragging the pattern from the Easel outside the Wallpaper window. The Editor will clear to the selected color.
The Wallpaper Info Bar is located under the menu bar. It will display the signature information of any selected pattern, and also update messages.
The Color Selector displays the colors, in a 16x16 palette, which can be applied to the pattern in the Editor. You can paint with these colors, modify them, or add new ones to a maximum of 256. Color Selector displays one row of colors, 16 at a time. Click on a color in the Color Selector to make that the current drawing color. Double-click on a color to change that color; the standard Macintosh Color Picker dialog will appear. If you alter a color that has been used in the pattern in the Editor, all pixels in the pattern that used to be of the old color will switch to the new. This is a good way to make wholesale changes in the color scheme.
But how do you use the other 240 spaces in the palette? If you press the mouse button anywhere in the Color Selector and hold it down for a moment, the entire 16x16 palette will appear as a pop-up menu. Choose any color from the pop-up; it will become the current drawing color, and its row will become the one shown in the Color Selector.
Like the equivalent in the original Control Panel pattern editor in the General cdev, you can click on a color in the Color Selector, then click or drag in the Editor to draw in that color.
The Toolbox is a pop-up menu that lets you switch by keyboard or mouse between several customized standard tools for painting in the Editor (see The Easel, Color Selector and Toolbox, and The Painting tools).
The Stored-Pattern Spaces consist of two columns of 5 positions each, located on the right of the Wallpaper cdev. If you copy a pattern (see How to move, copy and install patterns) into one of the Stored-Pattern Spaces, it will be retained there until you copy another one over it or throw it away by dragging it outside the window. The Stored-Pattern Spaces are valuable for parking variations of patterns that are in progress before saving them to disk, providing something like a Save As capability. Also, you can store some of your favorite patterns in the Stored-Pattern Spaces for quick access. Whenever you open Wallpaper, your Stored-Pattern Spaces will look just the way you left them. But this is not a substitute for saving to disk (which you cannot do in this demo).
The pattern personalization feature (or signature feature) is a unique component of Wallpaper. When you save a pattern (not from this demo), your name and the pattern’s name are automatically attached and can be displayed thereafter by anyone who loads the pattern into Wallpaper. The name you used when you personalized Wallpaper the first time you opened it is the artist name that will be automatically attached to the patterns you create or edit. You must type the pattern name into the signature dialog in order to name the pattern. You do that by double-clicking on your pattern when it’s in the Wallpaper window, or by typing “I.” This brings up the pattern personalization dialog. Then when you save the pattern to disk, the default name of the pattern in the save dialog will be the pattern name you entered in the signature dialog. The disk name and the signature personalization name can be different from each other; each has to be separately entered.
If you edit a pattern which someone else made, your name will automatically be entered as the second artist.
You can change the default artist name for single sessions in the Preferences menu choice, and you can edit any signature information in the signature personalization dialog.
You can display and edit patterns’ signature information by double-clicking on any pattern in any double-outlined box in the Wallpaper window or by typing “I.”
HOW TO MOVE, COPY, INSTALL AND PRINT PATTERNS
Changing the desktop pattern, storing the pattern being edited, and editing one of the stored patterns follow one simple rule:
Any double-outlined box, filled with a pattern, can be dragged to any other and will copy its pattern there, overriding any pattern already there.
For example, press the mouse button in one of the stored patterns on the right side of the window, drag the pattern to the Easel, then release the mouse button. You’ve just copied that stored pattern into the Editor, where you can modify it.
Dragging the patterns lets you accomplish many things:
* Drag a pattern from the Easel or one of the Stored-Pattern Spaces into the Little Mac Monitor (LMM) and it will be copied to the LMM, becoming the current desktop pattern.
* Drag the current desktop pattern from the LMM to the Easel and it will be copied to the Editor, ready for modification in the Editor.
* Drag a pattern from the LMM or the Easel to a Stored-Pattern Space and you’ve copied the pattern to one of the Stored-Pattern Spaces to keep it readily available.
* Drag a pattern from one Stored-Pattern Space to another Stored-Pattern Space to make a duplicate copy of it.
* Dragging in all these instances retains the original pattern, creating a copy in the new place, copying over the pattern in the destination position.
But there is one extension to the rule:
* Dragging a pattern from a double-outlined box out of the window clears the box. If you drag a stored pattern out of the window you’ll clear its space. If you drag the Easel’s pattern out of the window, the Editor is cleared to the currently selected color.
COPY WARNING
If you have not first saved the pattern to disk, you will lose it by removing it from its position in the Wallpaper Control Panel.
Drag the Little Mac CPU (LMC) to any doubly-outlined box in the Wallpaper window to invoke a load dialog to load a pattern to that box. Drag any pattern in the Wallpaper window to another, to load the first pattern to the second box.
Dragging is the slickest way to install patterns, but it isn’t the only way. Patterns can be loaded to any selected double-outlined box in the Wallpaper window via the Load menu command, which you can invoke in other ways than dragging the LMC to the position to which you want to load a pattern. You must first select the position to which you want to load, by clicking on it once. Its double-outline will become black. Then you can select the “Load” menu choice or type the keyboard command of the character “L.” Under System 6 you can also type Command-L. System 7 doesn’t support menu commands in cdevs at this time.
To print, select any pattern in a double-outlined position in the Wallpaper window, by clicking on it once. Copy via the keyboard (Command-C). Paste into any paint, draw or word processor program. Paste several times to create a large picture. Print from that program.
THE WALLPAPER MENU
Triangles indicate and point to a hidden menu. Press the mouse in the “menu bar” at the top of the Wallpaper window to pull down the Wallpaper menu.
About Wallpaper… and Help… do what you’d expect. Help… can also be accessed by pressing “?” or “/.”
Zoom In and Zoom Out change the magnification of the Pattern Editor. The magnification can range from 1:1 (actual size) to 16:1 or 1600%. If the pattern at the current magnification is smaller than the Pattern Editor, you will see several repetitions of the pattern. This is useful to see how the pattern’s edges connect.
If the entire pattern doesn’t fit in the Editor, use the grabber-hand tool to scroll (see The Editor, Color selector and Toolbox).
Dotted divider lines in the Editor indicate the edges of the pattern. Wallpaper graphics are wraparound and infinite, a unique Wallpaper feature. You can scroll forever in any direction in the Editor.
A command that toggles allows you to alternate between only two options, like an on/off switch. The Show Dividers menu choice toggles the divider display on and off. Select the Show Dividers menu choice and the dividers show. When the dividers show, you’ll see a check mark next to this menu choice. Select again and the dividers don’t show. When the dividers are not showing, there is no check mark next to the menu choice.
Autoscrolling can be toggled on and off the same way as the dividers. When autoscrolling is checked on the menu, it’s on, and when it’s not checked, it’s turned off. When autoscrolling is on, should your drawing tool hit the edge of the Editor area, the work area will automatically scroll so that your brush stroke and cursor will appear in the same place, inside the Editor. When Autoscrolling is off, your cursor moves past the edge of the Editor, but your stroke wraps around. Try it.
When Autoscrolling is on, while you’re drawing, the Command-key will slow down the scrolling, and the Control-key will stop the scrolling.
Brushes leads to a sub-menu of paint brushes. Follow the triangle.
To access a submenu, you must hold your pointer down on the main menu command, in this case, “Brushes,” and drag your pointer to the right, in the direction of the triangular indicator. When you’ve reached the submenu, you continue to drag your pointer, stopping at your selection and letting go of the mouse button there. When you select the paintbrush tool, you can choose and change your brush on this submenu. You can also toggle through the paint brushes with the Tab-key after selecting the paintbrush tool, avoiding the sub-menu if you prefer.
The Stamps submenu replaces the Brushes submenu when the stamp tool is selected. You select the stamp tool and then select your stamp from this submenu. You can tab through the stamps as you can through the brushes.
The current size of the pattern in the Editor is indicated by the check-mark on the Pattern Size submenu. You can change the size of the pattern in the Editor by selecting a different size than the one already checked on this menu. This menu also sets the pattern size for the Pattern Grabber, because the Pattern Grabber inserts its pattern directly into the Editor. The Pattern Size menu command leads to a submenu of four choices under System 6 and five choices under System 7. This submenu allows you to choose between 8x8 (the size of a regular Macintosh pattern), 16x16, 32x32 and 64x64, and 128x128 under System 7. The 128 size only appears under System 7 because of limitations in System 6. You can change the dimensions of the pattern being edited or being grabbed by the Pattern Grabber by choosing one of these sizes.
If you increase the dimensions of a pattern in the Editor, the pattern will be repeated to fill the extra space. Stepping up in pattern size can sometimes be useful for creating special effects of pattern on top of pattern. Stepping down in pattern size will cause you to lose part of your pattern, and a subsequent stepping up in pattern size will not restore the lost part, except by Undo. If you realize your mistake immediately, you can Undo the step-down; otherwise you’ll have lost part of the pattern. In a stepping down of pattern size, Wallpaper retains the upper left corner of the pattern; it doesn’t shrink the pattern or give you the option of the area to be retained.
PATTERN RESIZE WARNING
If you reduce the dimensions of your pattern, only the top-left part will remain — you will lose at least 3/4 of the pattern for each step down in size!
Losing part of your pattern can create attractive effects. But be sure to save or store the pattern you like before experimenting with size, because there may be no going back.
Click once on any pattern and its border will become black. You’ve selected it. Once selected, any menu or keyboard command you choose will affect that pattern.
Edit Pattern… copies the selected pattern to the Editor. This is a more Macintosh-standard command than dragging it there.
Save Pattern… saves the selected pattern to disk (not functional in this demo).
Load Pattern… presents a standard load dialog to the selected double-outlined box in the Wallpaper window. It lets you choose a pattern file from disk copying it to the selected pattern space, replacing any previous contents. The Wallpaper Load Pattern dialog shows you a picture of the pattern you’ve selected, so you can quickly browse through patterns without having to load them individually.
When shopping for wallpaper for your home, wouldn’t you like to have it put up instantly, just so you could try it out? With Wallpaper, you can do that. You can preview any pattern on your desktop instantly by selecting the pattern’s name in the Load dialog, then clicking once on its Preview image. This temporarily installs the pattern to desktop. Note, too, that the name of the selected pattern and its artist’s name appear at the bottom of the load dialog.
You can preview as many patterns as you like, in as many folders and disks as you like, navigating through the load dialog box in the traditional manner. When you’re through previewing patterns, you can hit the Cancel button to return the desktop pattern to the one that was open before you used the Load command. If you’d prefer to install a new pattern, select the Open button. The pattern you open will replace the pattern that you were using before you chose the Load command.
Grab Pattern… presents a camera cursor which will grab an image and place it in the Editor. Before selecting Grab Pattern, select the pattern size you want to grab on the Pattern Size submenu of the Wallpaper menu. Then you can roam most anywhere inside your Mac to grab the images you like. Just click, and the pattern will instantly appear in the Wallpaper Editor.
The Revert Desktop menu choice restores your desktop pattern to what it was before you opened the Wallpaper window.
In addition to the commands on Wallpaper’s own menu, you can use the standard Macintosh editing commands. Choose them from the Edit menu in the Finder, or use their Command key equivalents. Wallpaper supports one level of undo. Undo works via the standard Command key: Command-Z. It will undo the last change you have made, whether drawing in the Editor or moving patterns around, with the exception of zooming and scrolling. Because zooming and scrolling don’t change anything, they cannot be undone. When Undo works, choosing Undo a second time consecutively is Redo: it undoes the undo.
Command-C will copy an entire pattern from any selected doubly-outlined box in the Wallpaper window. You can paste the pattern into any graphics program that supports PICT or Paint files, and you can thereby access the sophisticated tools available in some of these programs.
Command-V will paste a pattern into any selected (single-click will select) double-outlined box in the Wallpaper window.
Preferences… You can customize several Wallpaper features in the dialogs presented by this menu choice, and for easy access you can invoke the main Preferences dialog with the keyboard character “P.”
With the advent of System 7 we can save documents with custom icons. The Wallpaper pattern custom icons display a portion of each pattern, consisting of 19x25 pixels of the upper left, so by looking at the pattern file in the Finder you can preview a portion of the file. In preferences you can set your default for custom icons (on or off), but each time you save a pattern, you can override your default, for there’s a custom icon checkbox option in each System 7 Save dialog. The System 6 series cannot display custom icons. In System 6, the Wallpaper icons are in Black and White and also are not custom.
Preferences also allows you to customize audio accompaniment to moving and copying patterns in the Wallpaper window. The standard, default, sounds for Wallpaper are the “chug-chug” train sounds for dragging (moving and copying), and the “toot” sound for dropping patterns into a new position. You can set your preferences to substitute your own sounds, any sounds installed in your system, and you can also set your preferences for no sound at all.
Also in preferences you’ll find the options for randomization. You may sometimes choose to select the pattern you want displayed on your desktop, or you can allow Wallpaper to choose for you among the patterns in any folder you select in the randomization dialog box. Wallpaper can be set to change patterns each boot, or not, and it can be set to change patterns at intervals from every 1 minute to 24 hours, or not. Wallpaper can select a pattern in order or randomly from those within any folder you set in preferences. It might be fun to set up a series of patterns in a folder so they can display in sequential randomization like a slow-motion movie.
To set randomization you must show Wallpaper where the folder resides using the “Choose folder” button and you must click in a square that says “change every” so that an “x” appears in that square.
As long as you start up with the INIT (with Wallpaper in the System Folder under System 6 or in the Control Panel Folder under System 7), you can turn randomization on and off, change your selected folder and adjust your randomization interval as often as you want without having to restart.
Preferences also allows you to set memory allocation for Wallpaper’s safetyNet. Wallpaper is a cdev and as such is a second class citizen for memory allocation in the System Heap.
In order to provide the memory we may need, safetyNet will retain some memory at startup for Wallpaper’s use. The minimal setting is 10K, more = 32K, a lot = 102K and a whole lot = 206K, in the preferences settings. If you find Wallpaper never complains that it needs more memory, leave the minimal setting. If you find Wallpaper sometimes complains that it needs more memory, experiment with allocating more RAM to safetyNet.
THE EDITOR, COLOR SELECTOR, AND TOOLBOX
The Editor is the largest single area in the Wallpaper window, the place where you create and modify patterns. The Editor displays either a true size or magnified view of the pattern in the Easel. The Color Selector shows the colors used by the pattern in the Editor. The Toolbox gives you your choice of painting tools with which to work.
You can scroll in the Editor one horizontal or vertical pixel at a time using the Arrow keys on your keyboard, eight pixels at a time using the Option-key with the Arrow keys, or you can scroll more quickly and on diagonals by using the Command-key with a mouse drag via the grabber-hand tool.
You paint in the Editor by clicking or dragging, just as you would in a regular paint program. What happens when you click depends on what tool you are using. To choose a tool, mouse-down on the Toolbox (the hand). A tool menu, similar to the drawing palettes of other paint programs, will pop up. Choose the tool you want by dragging your mouse to it and releasing the mouse.
One of the colors in the Color Selector is always outlined, indicating the selected color. The Toolbox tools that draw will draw in this color. To change the selected color, click another color. You can move through your 256 colors, 16 at a time, by using the Control key with Arrow keys.
To modify a color, or change one of the Color Selector’s blank spaces to a new color, double-click its space. A standard Macintosh Color Picker dialog will appear. Create the color of your choice using both the wheel and the vertical scroll bar, then press OK, or press Cancel if you change your mind. If the color you modified already appears in the pattern, all the pixels of that color will change to the new color. This is an easy way to change the color-scheme of the entire pattern.
WORKING IN OTHER GRAPHICS PROGRAMS
Wallpaper is optimized for working with patterns and requires no other paint program, but you can create all or part of your pattern in your favorite paint programs, pasting the patterns into any selected space in the Wallpaper window. In another paint program, you can create a pattern based on some existing piece of artwork, such as a scanned photo or a paint graphics file. Or you may be used to working in a paint program, and may miss a feature it offers.
TRADING PATTERNS
Desktop patterns are small, they’re fun, they’re easy to make and they make a world of difference in the work environment. They brighten things up, and they’re a lot less expensive than redecorating. You can get the equivalent of new carpeting, curtains, drapes, and furniture when you install a new pattern.
Share your favorite patterns with us. If you’re a registered owner of Wallpaper, mail us your favorite original desktop patterns, (sending them to us will be taken as your authorization to us to distribute your patterns further) and include our pattern submission card. We’ll select at least 10 patterns to be featured in our two disk subscription; and if your pattern is selected, we’ll send you a Wallpaper T-shirt.
If you upload Wallpaper’s desktop patterns to the telecommunication services or BBSs, indicate if they can be freely distributed. In any case, we’d like to see them. Custom icons are only retained by some of the compression programs. If you’re compressing patterns for upload, be sure to use one of the programs that retains custom icons. At the time we prepared this manual, the only released programs that did retain custom icons were Compact Pro1.31 and later, DiskDoubler 3.7 and later.
Trade as many desktop patterns as you like with other users of Wallpaper, but please don’t trade or lend copies of the program itself. Wallpaper is commercial software.
SUBSCRIPTION, RELATED WALLPAPER PRODUCTS , SPECIAL PRICING
We’ll send you two compressed disks for a subscription price of $25 US, $32 non-US. Each subscription includes a minimum of two disks and a bonus disk of patterns for resubscribing. Over 450 patterns shipped on each of the first three subscriptions (the first two disks), and the bonus disks brought Subscription One and Two to almost 600 patterns each. You may send a check, US money order, or VISA, MC or AMEX information (don’t forget to include expiration date) at any time for the Wallpaper Pattern Subscription.
We're also shipping a single floppy disk of patterns derived from the Wraptures Two CD-ROM. Our Wallpaper Wraptures Two disk consists of patterns that were primarily scanned from nature: rocks, marbles, granites, foliage, plants, crystal, glass and also jelly beans and chocolate icing. $19.95. It ships on a compressed HDFD disk; if you require two 800K disks instead, please specify.
Great Art One contains 160 scanned images from a wide range of sources: Japan, China, Matisse, Van Gogh, Egypt, Nolde, and Rembrandt. For $29.99 you can have great art of your own.It ships on a compressed HDFD disk; if you require two 800K disks instead, please specify.
CAL is our latest product. Retailing at $79.95, it is a talking CALculator and CALendar, which also takes speech recognition input. It will stop you from making mistakes in the CALculator and Formula Editor by immediately repeating the information you have entered in a male or female voice or any voice you create yourself. The appearance and color and size is also customizable (you can have large type, colored type and even choose your typeface), and CAL also can use Wallpaper patterns in its background display. CALculator and Formula Editor have tapes which can be printed; CALculator’s tapes can be saved, named, imported and exported. The Datebook maintains and manages your schedule, including recurrent appointments, and uses an easy drag and drop interface. All four CAL modules function independently of each other but can be coordinated in appearance.
Call Thought I Could for special pricing for TIC products.
CONTEST
In order to help us send out a lot of excellent patterns, we’d like you to send us those you create if the art is your own creation, and you assign us rights.
If you are sending us patterns, please include a signed copy of our pattern submission form. We’ll judge the patterns (we’ll be the sole, entirely subjective, judges), we will feature our favorite choices in future subscription disks and we will also send a Wallpaper T-shirt to some of the authors. The patterns you send us must be owned by you, and your sending them to us will authorize us to distribute them freely.
