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- Short: Substitute for the MagicWB pens daemon.
- Author: benjamin.hutchings@worcester.oxford.ac.uk (Ben Hutchings)
- Uploader: benjamin.hutchings@worcester.oxford.ac.uk (Ben Hutchings)
- Version: 1.0
- Type: util/wb
-
- TragicWB is a substitute for the MagicWB pens daemon. "Not another
- one!" I hear you cry. Well read on and you will see why this is better
- than some of the others floating around.
-
- IMHO MagicWB is an overpriced collection of tasteless icons and
- backdrops coupled with a rather half-hearted palette hack. NewIcons
- offers a much better general solution to the icon colour problem
- and doesn't tie you down to a specific set of colours for your icons.
- NewIcons is also free. But unfortuantely NewIcons is unsuitable for
- use on slow machines, so there are a lot of MagicWB icons out there
- - MUI programs in particular tend to have MagicWB icons.
-
- MagicWB icons will not display correctly unless you are using the
- MagicWB palette and, what's more, some kind of palette hack to ensure
- that the MagicWB palette is used for colours 4-7 even if you have
- more than 8 colours on your Workbench screen. The MagicWB package
- contains a "palette daemon" which will do this for you, but $20 (or
- whatever MagicWB costs these days) seems a bit much to pay for a
- palette hack. So there are a number of free palette hacks around
- which will do the same. I think TragicWB is the most complete.
-
- Unlike some other palette hacks, TragicWB does not require you to
- enter the desired palette values. Since it is meant for use with
- MagicWB icons, pens 4-7 will automatically be set to the correct
- values. In addition, every time you re-open the Workbench screen,
- the pens will be reset (or at least they should be). All you have
- to do is add TragicWB to your user-startup (using the supplied
- installer script) and you need no longer worry about wrongly-
- coloured MagicWB icons.
-
- TO DO: Add a hack to make MagicWB icons tasteful :-)
-
- Ben Hutchings
- 43 Harrison Close
- Reigate
- Surrey RH2 7HS
- ENGLAND
-
- email: benjamin.hutchings@worcester.oxford.ac.uk
- WWW: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~worc0223
-
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 2311 896 61.2% 22-Sep-96 00:21:10 Install_TragicWB
- 1288 1003 22.1% 21-Sep-96 23:35:40 Install_TragicWB.info
- 434 103 76.2% 08-Sep-96 17:31:08 MWB-palette.pre
- 1355 1037 23.4% 21-Sep-96 23:35:40 MWB-palette.pre.info
- 1340 954 28.8% 22-Sep-96 00:47:22 TragicWB
- 5084 2391 52.9% 22-Sep-96 00:53:36 TragicWB.guide
- 1456 963 33.8% 21-Sep-96 23:35:40 TragicWB.guide.info
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- 13268 7347 44.6% 04-Oct-96 18:30:20 7 files
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