23/01/93

YO:

Here are some misc things to add to MagicWB by Martin Huttenloher.  I've
included some icons I made and some WB prefs which I think look great with
the MWB.  You may back your files up and try out the ones I've included.
I've even included a picture of what patterns:pattern6 looks like as a WB
backdrop (using NickPrefs (which is one of the icons I've included)).
Pattern6 is an 8 color, standard MWB palette picture which I drew (I like
it).  In fact I've fixed all of patterns 1-10 so that the palette is consist
-ent, and so that black is not used (so it won't interfere with icon text
color.  In the c: drawer there is a command called "rand," written by Troy
Morehouse, which you may use to randomize your backdrops (in your startup-
sequence/user-startup), like I do.  Here are the lines which you need (you
may need to edit the paths):

c:copy sys:prefs/patterns/pattern`c:rand 1 10` ram:t/wb.pic
sys:prefs/wbpicture use
.
.
.
(end of your user-startup)
delete ram:t/wb.pic

This sets the startup to choose between six files all called patternX.  So
rename all the patterns you want to use in this manner and change the 6 in
the rand arguments to the appropriate number.  Now you also have to set
NickPrefs to load ram:t/wb.pic and save the prefs and bingo -> random
backdrops!  Note that the "`" character is the one on the top left of your
keyboard, not the "'" - it makes a difference :-(
Also included is the RedSnapper icon for the cool new FredFish utility by
Darren Reid and Nick MacDonald (check it out ;-) Red Snapper generates
.profile database files for submisissions to the Fish collection.
AND!!!!  A MWB DIRECTORY OPUS ICON!!! HURRAY!! :) :)
Check out the spinning.pre which is a busy-pointer to be used with the nick
prefs busy pointer animator...it's in the prefs/preset drawer (for best
results also use the pointer.ilbm which is a WB pointer that goes with the
spinning pointer I created).

Enjoy das junk...Later, Trevor Morris....

P.S. Darren Reid is writing a much way coolerest rand command so that you
don't have to rename all files "FileX" - Look for it...it'll be shareware
with a register fee of $1000.01 but man will it be worth it ;)

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[generic]                 5491    8472  64.8% -lh5- c2ac Oct 15  1992 c/Rand
[generic]                  221     492  44.9% -lh5- 78c7 Jan 23  1994 prefs/Patterns/pattern1
[generic]                15760   19484  80.9% -lh5- caa2 Jan 23  1994 prefs/Patterns/pattern10
[generic]                12244   18380  66.6% -lh5- 41c8 Nov  9  1993 prefs/Patterns/pattern2
[generic]                 6721   15092  44.5% -lh5- 6115 Jan 23  1994 prefs/Patterns/pattern7
[generic]                15816   21460  73.7% -lh5- 3cea Jan 23  1994 prefs/Patterns/pattern8
[generic]                 5673   15076  37.6% -lh5- 2c49 Jan 23  1994 prefs/Patterns/pattern9
[generic]                  353    1098  32.1% -lh5- f401 Oct 17  1992 prefs/presets/Spinning.pre
[generic]                  140     176  79.5% -lh5- 7fe2 Oct 13  1992 prefs/env-archive/sys/pointer.ilbm
[generic]                   15     148  10.1% -lh5- 0984 Nov  9  1993 prefs/env-archive/sys/wb.pat
[generic]                  133     148  89.9% -lh5- 7334 Nov  9  1993 prefs/env-archive/sys/win.pat
[generic]                  563     936  60.1% -lh5- 8474 Nov  9  1993 prefs/Patterns/pattern3
[generic]                 8889   10934  81.3% -lh5- 1c47 Nov  8  1993 prefs/Patterns/pattern4
[generic]                14975   18720  80.0% -lh5- 676a Nov  9  1993 prefs/Patterns/pattern5
[generic]                72126   88502  81.5% -lh5- d6bd Jan  7  1994 prefs/Patterns/pattern6
[generic]                 1144    3952  28.9% -lh5- 8f55 Nov  8  1993 prefs/env-archive/sys/def_disk.info
[generic]                  869    3579  24.3% -lh5- ffc1 Nov 29  1993 prefs/env-archive/sys/def_project.info
[generic]                 1552    2614  59.4% -lh5- ec70 Nov 29  1993 prefs/env-archive/sys/def_text.info
[generic]                 1026    3574  28.7% -lh5- 6501 Nov 29  1993 prefs/env-archive/sys/def_tool.info
[generic]                  106     106 100.0% -lh0- af30 Nov 17  1993 prefs/env-archive/sys/palette.ilbm
[generic]                 1490    2558  58.2% -lh5- 5a9f Jan 22  1994 DOpus.info
[generic]                 1387    1718  80.7% -lh5- 1e32 Jan 21  1994 Floppy.info
[generic]                70639   86700  81.5% -lh5- 29e9 Jan 21  1994 Pattern6Example.pic
[generic]                  585    2612  22.4% -lh5- c5f6 Nov 29  1993 prefs/env-archive/sys/def_drawer.info
[generic]                 1097    3993  27.5% -lh5- 6148 Nov  8  1993 prefs/env-archive/sys/def_kick.info
[generic]                 2019    6530  30.9% -lh5- c57d Nov 29  1993 prefs/env-archive/sys/def_misc.info
[generic]                 1157    2186  52.9% -lh5- 6075 Jan 24  1994 ReadMeIfYou.Want
[generic]                  945    3661  25.8% -lh5- 213d Jan 24  1994 ReadMeIfYou.Want.info
[generic]                 1513    2318  65.3% -lh5- 7050 Jan 21  1994 RedSnapper.info
[generic]                 1062    1713  62.0% -lh5- e0f1 Jan 21  1994 WBPicture.info
[generic]                  427    3590  11.9% -lh5- dd53 Jan 21  1994 BlankIcons.pic
[generic]                  747    3664  20.4% -lh5- 82ea Jan 23  1994 Disk.info
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 Total        32 files  246885  354186  69.7%            Jan 26  1994