Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!claris!clay
From: clay@claris.com (Clay A. Maeckel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Desktop pictures
Summary: DeskPict 2.0 lives.
Message-ID: <10298@claris.com>
Date: 19 Jun 89 16:25:01 GMT
References: <4676@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <7679@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: clay@claris.com (Clay A. Maeckel)
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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In article <7679@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>In article <4676@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> g556871349ea@deneb.ucdavis.edu
>(G556871349ea) writes:
>>Could someone please tell me if there is a simple Pascal procedure I can use
>>to take a PICT resource and make it the desktop pattern like DeskPict does? I
>>downloaded DeskPict recently but it does not work with my SE. BackDrop doesn't
>>put its (MacPaint) picture on a Radius TPD properly.
>
>Depends on the version.  Later versions work fine on large screens.
>After all, I used to run it on my Mac II.
>

I have started working on version 2.0 of DeskPict (I'm between projects at work
right now). I never considered non-Color QuickDraw machines because Backdrop
did a great job.  I am changing my init into a cdev so you can select which
picture you want and toggle feature flags. The only file format I was going
to add was MacDraw-type PICT files (the data is in the data fork). Is there
much need out there for DeskPict to support SE's and Pluses?  Especially if
it only supports PICT type files?

>But really, I stopped maintaining Backdrop after MultiFinder came out,
>for what I hope are obvious reasons.  Is there really still interest in
>the program?

Tim, I get requests all the time from people that have memory to burn. They
want multiple screen support, 32-bit support, and custom CLUT's. I'll be adding
an option to have the image disk based (DeskPict 0.6 actually did that) so
the ram usage isn't as great with the trade off being speed. There are a lot
of people around here that have over a meg of ram dedicated to inits and really
want those fancy pictures on the screen.

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