Short:    Configure the look of the Amiga GUI!
Author:   tanti@intercom.it (Massimo Tantignone)
Uploader: tanti@intercom.it (Massimo Tantignone)
Version:  1.3c
Type:     util/wb
Requires: AmigaOS 3.0+

VisualPrefs 1.3c (30.12.97) by Massimo Tantignone

**** This is a small update to releases 1.3, 1.3a and 1.3b ****

VisualPrefs is a patch which allows you to customize with great freedom
many aspects of the look of the Amiga GUI.

If you do want to see for yourself what VisualPrefs is able to do, just
take a look at the preview image supplied with this archive.

Using a comfortable preferences editor, you can configure many details like:

· different light/dark colors for active or inactive windows edges
· the thickness of all four window borders (also with system gadgets)
· the height of window/screen titlebars regardless of the font height used
· the style of system gadgets
· the style of MUI/KingCON/ClassAct/DirOpus/Scalos titlebar gadgets
· the exact look of the BOOPSI and GadTools 3D frames
· the look of GadTools proportional gadgets
· the position of window titles (centered in dragbar or in whole titlebar)
· the fill color of inactive window borders

... and also other interesting things. By the way, VisualPrefs contains all
the functionality (and more) of my previous patches Prop3D and CenterTitles.

You can configure individually the GUI of each different screen opened
by your applications, as well as define a global GUI look.

I know there are other programs doing some of this, but none of them has
all the features offered by VisualPrefs.

This program is shareware.

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   Note: This patch works even better when used together with the
         "FullPalette" program, which is also on Aminet, currently
         as util/wb/FullPalette19.lha (but the number may change).
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   Changes from release 1.3b:
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   · Fixed a bug which caused Enforcer hits at the opening of Workbench
     windows when the PowerWB patch was running.

   · DirOpus iconify & padlock gadgets should now be patched whichever window
     they appear in; previously some windows were missed by VisualPrefs.

   · Now the GUI editor saves a "palette.prefs" file with default settings if
     one doesn't exist.

   Changes from release 1.3a:
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   · Compatibility with Birdie in hi-color and true-color modes was broken
     due to the previous bug-fix. Now it works again.

   Changes from release 1.3:
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   · Fixed an odd bug which prevented VisualPrefs from running on most V39
     (Kickstart 3.0) systems.

   · Slightly modified the documentation.

   Changes from release 1.2a:
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   · Now VisualPrefs can be made nearly 100% compatible with Birdie! See the
     documentation to learn how to obtain this.

   · Now the KingCON patch also works for RAW: and KRAW:.

   · Now VisualPrefs also patches the Scalos iconify gadget image.

   · Fixed a bug that caused the YAM mailer to display fake error messages.

   · Now the iconify gadget of the DirOpus text reader window is also
     patched.

   · The DirOpus screen title wasn't always vertically centered. Now fixed.

   · Removed an Enforcer hit with DirOpus 4.

   · Now the additional titlebar gadgets (such as the MUI ones) have the
     correct colors on Picasso96 hicolor and truecolor screens.

   · The previous fix for the YAM problem, found on my home page, did cause
     address errors on plain 68000 CPUs. Now fixed.

   · With big titlebar gadgets, sometimes the window title covered part of
     the gadget at its immediate right. Now fixed.

   · Saving the preferences doesn't corrupt anymore the titlebar of some
     screens if they have an increased titlebar height.

   · Now deadlocks at the reopening of the Workbench screen when saving the
     preferences should be less likely to happen.

   · Added some developer documentation about the "tbiclass" image class.

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   Author:

   Massimo Tantignone
   Via Campagnoli, 4
   28100 Novara (NO)
   ITALY

   E-mail: tanti@intercom.it