Short: Configure the look of the Amiga GUI! Author: tanti@intercom.it (Massimo Tantignone) Uploader: tanti@intercom.it (Massimo Tantignone) Version: 1.4 Type: util/wb Requires: AmigaOS 3.0+ ************ Once again, this release of VisualPrefs was uploaded *********** ************ intentionally on July 23. Happy birthday, Amiga! :-) *********** VisualPrefs 1.4 (23.7.98) by Massimo Tantignone *** This is the official release 1.4 of VisualPrefs, a major update since *** *** release 1.3c. This is a repackaged version of the latest beta archive *** *** found on my home page (1.4 beta 2); beta-testing for 1.4 is now over. *** VisualPrefs is a patch which allows you to customize with great freedom many aspects of the look of the Amiga GUI. If you do want to see for yourself what VisualPrefs is able to do, just take a look at the preview image supplied with this archive. Using a comfortable preferences editor, you can configure many details like: · different light/dark colors for active or inactive windows edges · the thickness of all four window borders (also with system gadgets) · the height of window/screen titlebars regardless of the font height used · the style of system gadgets · the style of MUI/KingCON/ClassAct/DirOpus/Scalos titlebar gadgets · the exact look of the BOOPSI and GadTools 3D frames · the look of GadTools proportional gadgets · the position of window titles (centered in dragbar or in whole titlebar) · the fill and text color of inactive window borders · an optional "pop-up" behavior for GadTools cycle gadgets ... and also other interesting things. By the way, VisualPrefs contains all the functionality (and more) of my previous patches Prop3D and CenterTitles. You can configure individually the GUI of each different screen opened by your applications, as well as define a global GUI look. I know there are other programs doing some of this, but none of them has all the features offered by VisualPrefs. This program is shareware. *************************************************************** Note: This patch works even better when used together with the "FullPalette" program, which is also on Aminet, currently as util/wb/FullPalette19.lha (but the number may change). *************************************************************** Changes from release 1.3c ------------------------- · Now cycle gadgets can display a pop-up menu when pressed! The behavior of the pop-up menu can be configured with the GUI editor (sorry, no preview yet). You can even set a delay for the pop-up menu to wait before appearing, so that with "quick" clicks the cycle gadget will still behave like usual. Please read the guide for more information. · Disabled GadTools button and cycle gadgets can now be displayed with a new 3D look (without ghosting and with their text recessed). You can also choose the colors to be used for this. · GadTools button and cycle gadgets can now "shift" their contents when pressed (like scroller arrows already did). · Now "Future" style border gadgets can optionally be made to only react to clicks made within the actual "button" image, rather than the ones made on the whole gadget hit box. · You can now choose a XEN look for GadTools gadgets without affecting all other 3D frames in the system (although of course you can still do it the old way, too). · Now you can have compatibility with Birdie on all screens, not just the Workbench one. The way to configure it HAS CHANGED, please read the guide! It now also involves setting an option in the GUI editor. · Now the titlebar of screen can be made fully 3D, by adding the missing "bright" edge at the left and top sides. A new pen (Bar Contour) has been added to this purpose. · You can now set the color of inactive window titles. · The IM_FRAMEBOX method of "frameiclass" now reflects the real thickness of the frame borders. · The "PatchWB" program by Thomas Richter has been added to the VisualPrefs distribution archive; it should fix the annoying Workbench screen re-open lock-up problem once and for all, by killing its real cause. Thanks Thomas! · At last, you can install a proper 68060 version of VisualPrefs and GUI. · Now the installation script allows you to choose whether to install icons or not, so you can avoid overwriting your existing icons. · The GUI editor now embeds a version number in the preferences file when saving. This will make much easier in future releases the addition of new features without loss of compatibility. · Added a workaround for a bug in graphics.library/BltMaskBitMapRastPort() causing system gadgets to appear as garbage when Birdie compatibility was enabled on interleaved 8-bit screens. · Added a workaround for a bug in CyberGraphX which causes line drawing to sometimes produce different results than expected when the PLANES2FAST option is turned on. This was mainly affecting the shape of XEN arrows. · Corrected a couple of errors in the appearance of horizontal arrows in the "Standard" style. · Now window titles should no longer be drawn twice (and out of phase) when the PowerWB patch is running. · Fixed a bug in the rendering of window titlebars when Birdie is running. · Now the GUI editor always checks the version of catalog files. · Fixed a bug which caused the Draw() function to be called with an illegal -1 coordinate when applying the KingCON patch. · Now VisualPrefs checks if a screen can actually be closed before removing its patches. This should solve most problems of "GUI reverting to normal" which happened with programs such as WebDesign and Cinema4D. · When using MagicMenu in non-blocking mode, window titlebars covered by a menu no longer have their title refreshed at the wrong position after the menu closes. · Cycle gadgets in "Future/Flat" style had their symbol rendered with a wrong color when pressed if the gadget frame didn't use the Fill pen for its background in "selected" state. Now fixed. *************************************************************** Author: Massimo Tantignone Via Campagnoli, 4 28100 Novara (NO) ITALY E-mail: tanti@intercom.it Note: I'll be on holiday until around September 14, 1998, so I probably won't be able to answer e-mail before then. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 8160 3427 58.0% 13-Jun-98 20:55:58 +gui.catalog 940 347 63.0% 22-Jul-97 23:09:28 +DocsEnglish.info 54029 20611 61.8% 23-Jul-98 23:50:06 +VisualPrefs.guide 2056 604 70.6% 27-Nov-97 23:32:26 +VisualPrefs.guide.info 4551 1839 59.5% 27-Nov-97 23:51:00 +VP-Developer.doc 2056 602 70.7% 27-Nov-97 23:32:26 +VP-Developer.doc.info 940 347 63.0% 22-Jul-97 23:09:28 +DocsItaliano.info 58941 22368 62.0% 23-Jul-98 23:52:40 +VisualPrefs.guide 2056 604 70.6% 27-Nov-97 23:30:48 +VisualPrefs.guide.info 4835 1960 59.4% 27-Nov-97 23:52:10 +VP-Developer.doc 2056 603 70.6% 27-Nov-97 23:30:48 +VP-Developer.doc.info 4196 685 83.6% 24-Jul-97 12:13:42 +Doc.info 4584 2113 53.9% 18-May-97 01:13:42 +GUI.info 19303 5462 71.7% 15-Jun-98 02:29:28 +Install 679 337 50.3% 15-Jun-98 02:31:00 +Install.info 16608 11447 31.0% 16-Jun-98 12:59:38 +GUI_020_030.pch 16040 11107 30.7% 16-Jun-98 12:59:50 +GUI_040.pch 17560 12202 30.5% 16-Jun-98 13:00:02 +GUI_060.pch 19956 11929 40.2% 27-May-98 20:13:16 +select.gadget 16368 11733 28.3% 16-Jun-98 13:00:12 +VisualPrefs_020_030.pch 15580 11257 27.7% 16-Jun-98 13:00:22 +VisualPrefs_040.pch 16620 11923 28.2% 16-Jun-98 13:00:32 +VisualPrefs_060.pch 1860 1339 28.0% 26-Jul-97 21:12:04 +AddLine 14636 9285 36.5% 02-Dec-94 22:59:44 +SPatch 1576 978 37.9% 24-Jul-97 12:14:02 +Doc.info 1816 1112 38.7% 18-May-97 01:17:00 +GUI.info 1149 774 32.6% 24-Jul-97 12:14:22 +Doc.info 1799 1298 27.8% 16-Jun-98 20:49:50 +GUI.info 2198 1040 52.6% 18-May-97 01:17:54 +GUI.old.info 940 342 63.6% 22-Jul-97 23:09:28 +Prefs.info 95792 51807 45.9% 16-Jun-98 12:13:02 +GUI 1303 443 66.0% 01-May-97 15:59:58 +GUI.info 940 350 62.7% 22-Jul-97 23:08:34 +Presets.info 1706 264 84.5% 20-Jul-97 18:20:54 +GUISample.pre 420452 62518 85.1% 13-Jun-98 16:12:56 +Preview.ilbm 1224 367 70.0% 22-Jul-97 23:08:14 +Preview.ilbm.info 8759 3829 56.2% 23-Jul-98 12:31:58 +Read me! 3155 623 80.2% 19-Jul-97 10:06:16 +Read me!.info 940 347 63.0% 22-Jul-97 23:09:28 +Tools.info 616 453 26.4% 30-Jan-98 20:52:26 +PatchWB 5376 1424 73.5% 31-Jan-98 22:00:54 +PatchWB.asm 3871 1870 51.6% 30-Jan-98 20:55:28 +PatchWB.readme 15 15 0.0% 13-May-98 21:07:12 +StartPatchWB 740 285 61.4% 13-May-98 21:09:02 +StartPatchWB.info 77700 45962 40.8% 16-Jun-98 12:19:06 +VisualPrefs 940 347 63.0% 23-Jul-98 13:38:54 VisualPrefs.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 937617 330579 64.7% 28-Jul-98 23:07:54 46 files