Short: NEW! Transparent default icons on hi/true color WBs (68K and PPC MorphOS) Author: uni-dea@jumpy.it (Elena - www.elena-fractals.it) Uploader: uni-dea jumpy it (Elena - www elena-fractals it) Type: util/wb Version: 1.0 Requires: AmigaOS 3.5, hi/true color Workbench (MorphOS for the PPC version) Architecture: m68k-amigaos; ppc-morphos DESCRIPTION Since years I've been desiring my Workbench being able to display default icons (i.e the icons shown when no real .info file exists) with transparency: it would have been nice introducing such a feature, both aesthetically and for the user, who could visually understand more clearly which icons are "real" and wich ones not. So I found out the time to write Ghosty, hoping it may make happy other amigans too :-) SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AmigaOS 3.5 (needs icon.library v44+ Ghosty applies a patch to DrawIconState() ) An Hi/True Color Workbench runing on a CGX/P96 compatible GFX card A fast CPU to avoid scattering icon scrolling (Amithlon or MorphOS recommended) INSTALLATION Simply copy Ghosty with its icon (please don't call me "dark" :-b) in your WBStartup drawer. Make sure that the button "Wait until finished" in your WB Information requester is off. If you're using a 68K amiga or (better!) Amithlon, copy the 68K version. If you have MorphOS installed (goood!) please copy the PPC one which is really faster! Note: the PPC version requires MorphOS, it is NOT intended for usage under other PPC kernels like WarpOS or PowerUP, your system will surely crash otherwise. The PPC version is mainly useful to those (few) people who use the original Amiga Workbench under MorphOS emulation, mainly on PPC Amigas. Ghosty PPC DOESN'T work properly with Ambient, since Ambient uses its own internal icon mechanism. I provided the PPC version because it's really much faster than the 68K one, and actually I'm using my Workbench under MorphOS emulation on my Pegasos but... I know, I'm crazy (crazy but happy :-b) USAGE Very little to know about. Actually there're three tooltypes: -PERCENT=x where x ranges from 0 to 100 and means how much transparency will be applied to the icons. 0 means you won't see anything, 100 means you'll get no transparency. Good choices range from about 30 to 50, depending on the choosen icon text color, background pattern, etc. (defaults to 50) -NOGHOSTTEXT means you don't want the transparency applied to icon labels, only to the icon itself (default is ghosting the text too) -QUIET suppress copyright notices at startup time Ghosty is mainly intended to be launched from WBStartup drawer, but if you like you may place it at the end of your startup sequence. The synthax to launch Ghosty from the command line is RUN >NIL: Ghosty [PERCENT=n] [NOGHOSTTEXT] [QUIET] LEGAL Ghosty is PetitionWare ! If you like it and use it, please write a request to Stephan Rupprecht asking him to send me the sources of DefIcons, underlining that I won't spread them in any way and I need them for personal purposes only. The matter is: I LOVE DefIcons, I can't live without. Unfortunately, here with Pegasos/MorphOS it often crashes :-( I'm sure that's not a DefIcons bug, rather a MorphOS one. But without the source code I cannot reproduce it and help MorphOS authors to fix it! I wrote kindly to Stephan asking that, but he answered he can't. AUTHOR Please send any bugs or suggestions, if any, to Elena: or visit my homepage Ghosty is © Elena Novaretti 2003 ENJOY GHOSTY!