home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- All3D V1.21 - New 3D look for dialogs of most Windows applications
- Copyright 1993 by Andreas Furrer
- ==================================================================
-
-
- With All3D you can add Microsoft's new 3D look to the dialogs of
- most Windows Applications.
- All3D needs Windows 3.1, it will not work with Windows 3.0.
-
-
- If you have problems with some applications and All3D please see the section
- about the configuration of All3D!
-
-
- Installation
- ============
-
- The installation of All3D is very easy:
- 1) Copy CTL3D.DLL to your WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory, but don't override a
- newer version of CTL3D.DLL!
- 2) Copy ALL3D.EXE and ALL3DH.DLL to any (but the same) directory
- 3) Create a new item for ALL3D.EXE in your startup group
- 4) For the configuration of All3D there are two other files. You only need
- one of the following but you can also install both.
- 1) If you want to start the configuration dialog of All3d from your
- control panel, you have to copy ALL3DC.CPL into your
- WINDOWS\SYSTEM directory.
- 2) You can also start ALL3DC.EXE to get the configuration dialog.
- You can copy ALL3DC.EXE into any directory but it is recomended to
- copy it in the same directory as ALL3D.EXE
- 5) Restart Windows
-
-
- All3D is invisible. If you want to close it, just start it a second
- time or close it with a taskmanager that lets you see hidden windows.
- (Like FTaskman - a very nice, useful and FREE taskmanager replacement)
-
-
- Note: All3D will not work with every Windows application and will not
- add the 3D look to all controls, but it will work with a lot
- of applications.
-
-
-
- Configuration
- =============
-
- With the configuration program of All3D you can easyly set the settings
- of All3D. This includes setting the 3D effects and also setting a non
- standard background color.
-
- There are some applications which will crash with All3D and some other
- applications which have problems with some 3D effects.
- If you are working with such an application you have to change the settings
- of All3D.
-
- To start the configuration program there are two ways depending of your
- installation:
- 1) start the control panel and open the All3D icon
- 2) start ALL3DC.EXE
-
- There is a default setting and a setting for each application you
- don't want the default. You can set the following options:
-
- - Add 3D effect to controls
- 'Add 3D effect to controls' adds the 3D effect to buttons, listboxes,
- edits etc.
- - Add 3D effect to the border
- 'Add 3D effect to the border' adds a 3D effect to the title and border
- of a dialog.
- - Change background color
- 'Change background color' will change the background color of a dialog
- to the default color or any other color you can choose with the
- 'Non default background color' option.
- - Fix static controls
- 'Fix static controls' will change static controls with the style ss_simple
- so they will also be effected from All3D. For most applications you don't
- have to use this flag. But with file manager for example you have to
- use it. If you don't use it you will see some white (or any other color)
- rectangles in some dialogs.
- - Subclass childs of childs
- In some dialogs of applications there are controls which have child
- controls. Because CTL3D.DLL will not add any 3D effect to this control, you
- can use the option 'Subclass childs of childs' to add the 3D effect to any
- child of a child. You have also to use this option for some child controls
- if they don't have the right background color (e.g. with some listboxes).
- If you will get a stack failure with an application you have to unselect
- this option.
- - Non default background color
- If you have set the option 'Change background color' you can setup a
- default background color or a different color for the selected application.
- If you want to select a background color you have to check this option and
- press the button with the current color. If you don't set this option you
- get the default color which you can set up by selecting <default>.
-
-
- Note: Pushbuttons in a dialog with the setting
- no background color and 3D controls
- will look incorrect. Use this combination only if the application
- has already dialogs with a grey background.
- Note: If you use a non default background color in a dialog and you don't have
- set up the 'Subclass childs of childs' option you will maybe get a gray
- background of some text of controls.
-
-
- If you want to add an application to the listbox left just select New.
- For the application you have to enter the pathname of the executable.
-
- If you want to delete an item you have to select Delete.
-
-
- Note: Any changes to the settings will take effect to dialogs of a specific
- application only after you have closed ALL opened dialogs of this
- application. Maybe the main window itself is a dialog!
-
-
- Here are some settings for applications. Most of these settings are reported by
- some beta testers of All3D and I don't know if the are ok.
-
- | | | | | | Non | Application
- | Add 3D | Add 3D | Change | Fix | Subclass | default | with
- | effect to | effect to | background | static | childs | background | version
- program | controls | the border | color | controls | of childs | color | number
- =========|===========|============|============|==========|===========|=============================================
- <default>| x | x | x | | | |
- bpw | x | x | x | | | grey | Borland Pascal for Windows 7.0
- coreldrw | x | x | | | | | CorelDraw 3.0
- fmpro | | x | | | | | Filemaker Pro 2.0
- msmoney | x | x | x | | x | | MSMoney 2.0a
- tpw | x | x | | | | | Turbo Pascal for Windows 1.0
- winfile | x | x | x | x | | | Windows Filemanager 3.1
- workshop | x | x | x | | | grey | Borland Ressource Workshop 1.02
-
-
- If you have some setting for application that differ from the default setting
- in the table you can send a note to me and I will add the application to the
- table above. But please check for every application if your setting will work
- with a non standard background color. There are some applications with a
- standard grey background (e.g applications that use BWCC.DLL of Borland)
- and for this applications you have to set the non default background color to
- grey if you have a non grey default background color (e.g BPW and TPW in the
- table above). Please include also he full name of the application and the
- version number.
-
-
-
-
- Freeware-Note
- =============
-
- You can use and distribute All3D free, as long as the following files
- are not changed and you distribute all files together
-
- - all3d.txt
- - all3d.exe
- - all3dh.dll
- - all3dc.exe
- - all3dc.cpl
- - ctl3d.dll
-
- I am programming All3D because I have fun and not to make any profit.
- That's why All3D is free and you don't have to pay more or less high
- registration charges.I think it is a bad habit, that more and more program
- authors want to have money even for the smallest programs.
-
- Long live Freeware!
-
-
- If you have problems, comments, suggestions or you detect one error,
- please E-Mail to
-
- s_furrer@ira.uka.de
-
-
-
- (c) 1993 by Andreas Furrer
-
-
- Version history
- ===============
-
- 1.21: Fixed a bug that causes an 'Not enough memory error' on some ATs
- when All3D was started
- 1.20: Added configuration program
- Added setting to Subclas childs of childs
- Improved subclassing will crash with less applications
- 1.15: Added option to set background color
- 1.10: Added a flexible possibility to choose what effects All3D will add
- to an application. This will help with applications that do crash
- with prior versions of All3D and it will help with applications
- that have problems with some 3D effects.
- 1.01: Fixed a bug with the color dialog of commdlg.dll
- 1.00: First version of All3D.
-