jim@baker.dartmouth.edu (Jim Shain) (04/12/90)
Backdrop seems to be having problems on my Mac II. Backdrop puts up a Macpaint document on the desktop. It chooses (randomly) from the Macpaint documents in a folder called Screens in your system folder. The backdrop comes up fine, but when I open up my hard disk, and then close it, (or do anything else on the screen) the desktop gets all messed up. It seems that it isn't redrawing the desktop properly. I am using system 6.0.2 and the standard Mac II monitor. If anyone has an answer, or a program that they know of that does the same thing as Backdrop, (and works on a MacII) let me know. This set up works fine on a Mac plus. -- Jim Shain Sometimes our greatest limitation Department of Library Computing is our narrow-mindedness. Dartmouth College -someone on the net jim@baker.dartmouth.edu
macman@wpi.wpi.edu (Chris Silverberg) (04/12/90)
JS> Backdrop seems to be having problems on my Mac II. Backdrop puts up JS> a Macpaint document on the desktop. It chooses (randomly) from the JS> Macpaint documents in a folder called Screens in your system JS> folder. The backdrop comes up fine, but when I open up my hard JS> disk, and then close it, (or do anything else on the screen) the JS> desktop gets all messed up. It seems that it isn't redrawing the JS> desktop properly. Backdrop is not compatible with the Mac II line or the SE/30's. For your II, you need DeskPict which works the same as Backdrop, but uses a file containing a single resource. That resource is a PICT with an ID=0. Pick up Giffer in order to create a PICT startupscreen file. There's an option for saving it that way. You can have any size picture you want, depending on your screen size of course, and they can be in full color. For SE/30 owners, you'll need a program called GrayView that will nicely make screen files that work with DeskPict, yet are in black and white and formatted properly. BTW: Giffer from what i've been told really doesn't work on an SE/30 for whatever reason. Good luck. ============================================================================== == Chris Silverberg, WPI Box 719 ========= BBS Sysop: Main Street U.S.A. ===== == USENET: macman@wpi.wpi.edu ============ 2400 baud - (508) 832-7725 ======== == BITNET: macman@wpi.bitnet ============= Fido: 322/575 - Second Sight BBS == == GEnie: C.Silverberg ================== America Online: Silverberg ========