stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) (05/27/91)
Is there a newer version of DeskPict than 1.1? I have been using
1.1 on my LC at home for about a week, when I installed System 7
it kept working fine, except that every time I emptied the trash,
all the disk icons disappeared!! Please email replies. Thanks.
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----------------------------------------------------------------------gregg@chopin.udel.edu (Gregg S Young) (05/27/91)
I would like to know if there is DeskPict that would work for the SE/30. When I try to use DeskPict on my SE/30 the computer will not boot-up. I would like to have a background picture on my computer , but nothing seems to work. I have tried Back-Drop but that does not work very well. When I use Back-Drop the picture will get distorted when you open a window.
mo@well.sf.ca.us (Maurice Weitman) (05/28/91)
stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes: >Is there a newer version of DeskPict than 1.1? I have been using >1.1 on my LC at home for about a week, when I installed System 7 >it kept working fine, except that every time I emptied the trash, >all the disk icons disappeared!! Please email replies. Thanks. I've noticed similar behavior, and believe it started when I made an alias of the trash, and trashed the alias. Since having done that, parts of the disk icons, most often the names or parts of the names, disappear until I click on the icon or name. This happens when I put something into the trash, and also when I emptied it. Maybe at other times as well, but I can't recall the circumstances. -- Maurice Weitman mo@well.sf.ca.us ..!{hplabs,pacbell,apple,ucbvax}!well!mo | <- this is not a pipe 1634 Walnut Berkeley, CA 94709 (415)549-0280 Quote: "Facts are stupid things." Ronald Wilson Reagan, New Orleans, 1988 Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors.
ke2y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (John T. Chapman) (05/31/91)
In article <1991May27.155238.436@otago.ac.nz>, stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes: > Is there a newer version of DeskPict than 1.1? I have been using > 1.1 on my LC at home for about a week, when I installed System 7 > it kept working fine, except that every time I emptied the trash, > all the disk icons disappeared!! Please email replies. Thanks. > Unfortunately, I believe that is one of the tools that Now Utilities picked up - check with them for a (commercial) new version. Chances are you'll have to buy the whole Utilities package (some nice stuff, but I'm not sure I want to pay $80 or so for those specific INITs & cdevs when there are good alternatives for some and others are unnecessary to me...) Good luck! - John =============================================================================== | John T. Chapman | | | | Witty message under repair... | | ke2y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu | | | ke2y@crnlvax5.bitnet | | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Disclaimer: These opinions are mine. You can't have them! | ===============================================================================
gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Nathan Gasser) (05/31/91)
In article <1991May30.133400.5134@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> ke2y@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (John T. Chapman) writes: >In article <1991May27.155238.436@otago.ac.nz>, >stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes: >> Is there a newer version of DeskPict than 1.1? > Unfortunately, I believe that is one of the tools that Now Utilities >picked up - Stop! Don't buy Now Utilities just to get a mega-cool desktop, just swing by sumex and pick up the ColorDesk cdev. ColorDesk does everything DeskPicture did and better (drops the pattern when you flip to 1-bit mode, so no scruffy 256-color-turned- black-and-white-mud-images.) And works great with the ole' seven-oh. -- Nathan Gasser gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) (06/01/91)
""" Is there a newer version of DeskPict than 1.1? "Stop! Don't buy Now Utilities just to get a mega-cool desktop, "just swing by sumex and pick up the ColorDesk cdev. Is it really there? I just swung by and couldn't find it anywhere. I really miss a good desktop picture! -- Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)
gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Nathan Gasser) (06/02/91)
>>> Is there a newer version of DeskPict than 1.1? > >> Unfortunately, I believe that is one of the tools that Now Utilities >>picked up - > >Stop! Don't buy Now Utilities just to get a mega-cool desktop, >just swing by sumex and pick up the ColorDesk cdev. Stop again! Before you go swinging, ColorDesk isn't at sumex, nor is it at rascal, umich, uiuc, or anywhere (so many people have told me.) I am in the process of determining if ColorDesk is indeed shareware or not. I seem to recall it coming in with a few other files which did wholly unspectacular things, prompting me to show them the lower-right corner of my desktop. Therefore, if anyone is in for a chase for a "mega-cool" file, look thru the archives for, I believe, "Screen Gems" or something to that effect. I can't recall where I got it, but most of my stuff comes from the net, so it should be there, but it's not called ColorDesk in the file listing. I will not mail anyone ColorDesk until I am sure it's free/shareware. If anyone has information about it, please mail/post it. If it's commercial, I want to know where to buy it. It's published my MicroSeeds Publishing, so anyone with time and/or interest can contact them. Sorry to raise a fuss, but I was just trying to help. Nate. -- Nathan Gasser gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu
clay@claris.com (Clay A. Maeckel) (06/04/91)
gasser@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Nathan Gasser) writes: >I will not mail anyone ColorDesk until I am sure it's free/shareware. If >anyone has information about it, please mail/post it. If it's commercial, >I want to know where to buy it. Both ColorDesk (part of the Screen Gems package from MicroSeed) and DeskPicture (part of the Now Utilties package from Now Software) are both commercial products and should not be distributed freely. I believe that an early beta version of ColorDesk once made the rounds on the net but it was never supposed to be release like that. DeskPICT does have the problems with icon redrawing and it also crashes with some 32-bit displays. I'm still amazed that what I wrote in 1987 is still working. DeskPicture is the commercial version of DeskPICT and unfortunely the 2.0.3 version has the same icon redraw problem as DeskPICT. That has been fixed in the soon-to-be released version 3.0 of Now Utilties. Also I have redone the interface again to allow multiple pictures on the desktop and can read in any graphic file formats that you may have XTND filters for. Hope this helps a bit, --Clay -- Clay Maeckel * Internet: clay@claris.com * * * (I know nothing!) * CompuServe: 73057,255 * v Claris Corporation * AppleLink: MAECKEL1 * \_____/