Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!shelby!unix!quintus!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Icon sizes, Workbench hand (was Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist) Message-ID:Date: 16 Aug 89 15:56:37 GMT References: <694@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <16334@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <12112@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 32 In-reply-to: bob@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU's message of 16 Aug 89 19:18:23 GMT In article <12112@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> bob@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (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. Eric Lavitsky wrote a program called DropCloth, which will do what you're asking for. It will even put a four-color IFF picture in the background, if you have CHIP memory to spare. It's shareware and is on an older Fish Disk, and should be available via FTP from one of the Amiga archives. The Fish Disks contain more than one version, so you should look for the version on the highest numbered Fish Disk. The newest batch of Fish Disks contains a similar program on disk 234: WBPic Replaces Workbench's color 0 with an IFF hires non- interlaced picture, in 2 or 4 colors. Version 1.0, includes source in Modula-II. Author: Fridtjof Siebert I would expect the 1.4 Workbench to provide this feature, among others. --M -- Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM