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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Workbench background
Summary: It's in 1.4
Message-ID: <515@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 17 Aug 89 08:47:49 GMT
References: <12112@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA
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In article <12112@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> bob@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU.UUCP (robert s. richardson) writes:
: The one nit-picky thing that annoys me about the Workbench vs. most other
: windowing environments is the lack of a BACKGROUND.  I know about programs
: such as Tapestry and such, but they let the background show through the
: windows, which defeats the purpose in my mind.  I like to think of
: windows as pices of paper on my desktop, not transparencies.
: 
: Is there any solution out there that will give me a simple patterned or
: colored background that only shows where there are no windows?  I think
: this would make the WB look SOOOOO much more professional, even to the
: point of almost (but not quite) making topaz forgivable.

I have seen an alpha copy of 1.4 in action.  You can set the Workbench
background to be a pattern of dots, and each window that opens is opaque
with a solid color background.  I think you can even change the foreground
and background colors of each window independently.  (Or maybe that last
feature was in JazzBench.)

Until 1.4 comes out, you should try DropCloth on Fish Disk #128.  It even
allows you to load a 4-color IFF picture into Workbench's backdrop window.
I currently have an image of my orange and white cat staring at me from
the Workbench screen.  (Alternating blue and orange pixels make Murdock's
ears and nose look pink.)  And yes, windows and icons show up as opaque
rectanges when running DropCloth - none of the background picture or
pattern shows through in the windows.

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