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- Short: Golden appearace for Workbench and Directory Opus 5
- Author: mexico@ptt.yu (Miki)
- Uploader: mexico@ptt.yu (Miki)
- Type: util/wb
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-
- This Workbench style was inspired by - gold. It makes the
- world go around , it is in the Swiss banks , even Your mother
- has it , but now You can enjoy in its warm glow on your Amiga.
-
- Here are included the preferences for some programs which
- change the look and feel of Workbench: VisualPrefs , Birdie ,
- MagicMenu and TitleShadow. Their latest versions can be found
- on Aminet.
-
-
- Requirements: High colour Workbench
- ------------
- + all the programs listed above
-
-
- Recommended: OS 3.5
- ------------
- 1024 x 768 screenmode or higher
-
- FullPalette ( also on Aminet )
-
- 13 point screen font
-
-
- Installation: First you have to install all these programs
- ------------ like it says in their manuals and then change
- their preferences.
-
-
- Usage :
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-
- Visual Prefs : This preferences are for VP 1.5 or higher. Copy the
- directory Gold where ever you want , start GUI of
- VisualPrefs , open Gold/Gold.pre , and under
- System/Bitmaps choose Gold. Then save the prefs.
-
- NOTE: The gadgets may look weird in GUI prefs and
- the first time when you save the prefs. That's
- because most gadgets are drawn to use ONLY with
- Birdie and included textures. However, when you
- see how it looks you won't regret it.
-
- NOTE 2: This Gold set is loosely based on VP-Aqua set
- by Martin Bren. I emailed him and asked him
- for a promission to upload this changed set ,
- but as he did not answer me for some time
- I assume that it's OK to upload this to Aminet
- as long as I mention that my VP set is based on
- Mr. Bren's.
-
- Birdie : Open Birdie prefs ( bprefs.lha , also on Aminet) , load my
- Birdie prefs , for Active window pattern choose
- ActiveWindow.png and in pattern list choose InactiveWindow.png.
- Do NOT add any more patterns to pattern list because this set
- is designed for only one pattern.
-
- MagicMenu: This prefs file is for MagicMenu 2.35 (www.magicmenu.de).
- Open MMPrefs ,load MM_GoldBlue.prefs ,and then save the prefs.
- This prefs file does not really belong to this Gold set , but
- it looks very nice so you might want to check it out.
-
- TitleShadow: Copy my titleshadow.prefs to ENV: and ENVARC: and then load
- TitleShadowPrefs and save the prefs agin. Here I've added
- the brown shadow to the selected window title so now it
- looks a bit more shiny.
-
- NOTE: In order this to work you'll have to install
- Full Palette first. After the installation copy
- the included FullPalette.prefs to ENV:Sys and ENVARC:Sys
- and then reboot your Amiga.
-
-
- DOpus 5: For DOpus 5 I included a 32 color OS 3.5 Lister icon which you should copy
- to DOpus5:Icons. The icon I included represents a lowres image of my DOpus
- lister. I did a snap of desktop, loaded it into PPaint , cropped the image,
- did some make-up and loaded a brush into IconEdit. It was a 5 minute work.
- You should do the same to make your icon because it's no hassle and it
- looks very effective!
-
-
-
- Workbench: I included a desktop picture in golden style for WB and two textures
- for WB windows ( I prefer a darker one and white text colour ). This
- pictures really require OS 3.5 ( because of its picture.datatype
- which does dithering on highcolour screens ) or true colour workbench.
-
-
-
- I wanted to keep this archive as short as possible , so I uploaded the snapshot
- of my WB separately as pix/wb/GoldWB.jpg.
-
-
- Oh , I know, the window buttons remind of the VIVA logo. I hope no one will mind...
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- For any comments write to Miki
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- mexico@ptt.yu
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-