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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)
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Date: 16 Aug 89 15:56:37 GMT
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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.

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Michael Portuesi	Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc.
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