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From: filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 1.4 Wish: Revamped sizing gadget
Keywords: hack up intuitionprivate (ooh nasty -- but already being done)
Message-ID: <63.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Date: 27 Oct 89 14:29:14 GMT
References: <3397@puff.cs.wisc.edu>
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In article <3397@puff.cs.wisc.edu> David Pochron writes:
> One simple solution to just about all of the problems which have been
> discussed so far on this subject would simply be to do the unthinkable...
> modify the INTUITIONBASE struct and just put your own gadget structs with new
> images, positions, etc.

> Needless to say, probably won't work w/ 1.4, but works quite nicely w/
> 1.2 & 1.3.

There are at least two PD programs that do this: NewLook and 3DLook.  I have
NewLook running in my system; I think it looks tons better than regular
Intuition.  I don't really give a hoot whether it'll work with 1.4 -- if
not, I will just stop running it.  It's not as if anything depends on it.  I
can't imagine there being any problems with it in current AmigaDOS versions:
as far as I can tell, it just overwrites some bitmaps.  Either it finds and
correctly overwrites them, or the system dies.  The system doesn't die, so
it's working.

What I >would< like is a version of NewLook that let you supply your own
gadget images instead of living with what the author thought was nice.  I
haven't seen source to it anywhere...?  Likewise I'd like to see source to
KickFont -- I think Topaz-8 is atrocious, but the Pearl (?) font that is
supplied in KickFont is considerably WORSE...

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