Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!xylogics!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: How do I make a color startup screen? Summary: as promised, a summary Message-ID: <41166@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 11 Dec 90 04:46:44 GMT References: <4472@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <22080@well.sf.ca.us> <41097@ut-emx.uucp> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong) Lines: 59 I asked how to make a color startup screen for my 13" RGB monitor and IIsi, and use it as my desktop. The first part was relatively easy (in fact, I figured it out before the first letter arrived!). I used GIFConverter 2.1.1, FTPable from to save my color PICT as a StartupScreen. -------- J.D. Sterling Babcock (jdsb@egr.duke.edu) says he opened a GIF file with Quick GIF and saved it as a PICT with ID=0 (named StartupScreen). However, it uses the wrong CLUT, he says... Read on, JDSB, there's an answer. Al Burton (A.K.Burton@massey.ac.nz) described how to change the ID of a PICT file to 0 with ResEdit (more from Al in a sec...) Brian Aslakson (aslakson@cs.umn.edu) also passed along ResEdit instructions. Dennis Cohen (claris!ClarisII!drc@ames.arc.nasa.gov), besides winning a prize for longest address, says that the file type can be either PICT or SCRN (creator doesnt matter). He pointed out that Giffer and PixelPaint have options to save in StartupScreen format. Darryl Marsee (demarsee@gamera.cns.syr.edu) also recommended Giffer, along with other goodies (see below), and even told me where they could be FTPed; namely: DGT.sit.hqx in the pub directory on the host terrapin-station.syr.edu -------- The second part, how to turn my picture into the desktop, was a little harder. The init that worked on my SE (StartupDesk 1.0) does not work on my IIsi. -------- Al Burton says he uses DeskPicture 1.1. Darryl Marsee said that he uses an INIT called DeskPicture, which is also in the archive mentioned above. You name your desktop-of-choice DeskPicture, and the init turns it into your desktop; if you also have a StartUpScreen in your System folder, you will have one picture at startup and another for your desktop. The third item in the archive is Thors INIT, which allows the CLUT of your startup picture to become the default--thus, I presume, solving Mr. Babcock's problem. Last but not least, Michael Peirce (claris!outpost!peirce@ames.arc.nasa.gov) puts in a plug (whoops! NOT A PLUG! REALLY! heheheh...) for Now Utilities, which contains DeskPicture 2.0 as well as many other utilities. DeskPicture seems to be the winner, by a nose... ------- Thanks to all who responded. If anyone needs further information, drop me a line and I'll be happy to repeat all the good advice that others have given me. --Kathy -- ........................................................................... : Kathy Strong : "Try our Hubble-Rita: just one shot, : : (Clouds moving slowly) : and everything's blurry" : : clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu : --El Arroyo : :..........................................................................: