Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!vax5.cit.cornell.edu!q4kx From: q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Joel Sumner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: A Few Questions ... Message-ID: <1990Dec19.183234.1713@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Date: 19 Dec 90 22:32:34 GMT References: <1990Dec16.071328.6991@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU> Distribution: comp Lines: 44 In article <1990Dec16.071328.6991@usenet@scion.CS.ORST.EDU>, curfmanm@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Matthew Curfman) writes: > (1) Is there any sort of init that would allow me to change the default > background colors of the desktop. I know about the Desk Color NDA, > but I want to change the actual pallette, and get rid of those > yucky dithered colors. I want just black, white, the dark blue > like the border color, and yellow. This should be possible, and > I don't care what it might do to the color apple menu. I would like > to have the background the dark blue color, like SNOWTERM does, > but with all of my software. There is a program that allows you to change the desktop pattern for the Finder. There is a CDEV (CDEV.COLOR) that will change the background for all programs to whatever you want (pattern or picture). I currently have my desktop set to all BLUE (yep, like snowterm). Works like a charm. > > (2) A school that I am consulting for has a network of GS's. They would > like to use Twilight Companion, which blanks the text screen. Is > there any way to make Twilight Companion to check to see if the old > 280x192 graphics mode is on and blank that as well. They use > a lot of the old MECC software, and would like to have the screen > blanked when the students leave the lab for any duration. My under- > standing is that the Twilight CDEV only blanks the GS specific graphics > modes, and Twilight Companion blanks only text screens. > Question: Are they running MECC software from GS/OS? (i.e. Do they boot into GS/OS then run the MECC programs from the Finder?) If so, Twilite Companion could be modified to do it with little problem. (I wrote it ) Twilite CDEV only works for GS/OS desktop programs so it can't do it and can't be modified to do it. Let me know. (It might be a while. I won't have a way to get into my mailbox until at least Dec 29th, maybe longer, starting tomorrow) > I would appreciate any insight on the above problems! -- Joel Sumner GENIE:JOEL.SUMNER These opinions are q4kx@cornella.ccs.cornell.edu q4kx@cornella warranted for 90 days or q4kx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu q4kx@crnlvax5 60,000 miles. Whichever .................................................... comes first. Never test for an error condition that you can't handle.