Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!dog.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!crash!hrlaser From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: In search of... Message-ID: <1991May14.184652.11983@crash.cts.com> Date: 14 May 91 18:46:52 GMT References: <12019@uwm.edu> <1991May10.204210.17792@cs.cornell.edu> Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA Lines: 52 Guess I need to clear up this BIG MYSTERY about the middle screen shot in .info #39 (May '91) page 44. I wrote the text on that page and supplied .info magazine with the screenshots they used. The middle screenshot illustrates a program by one Bob Hosch called "ProStep". ProStep is described in the paragraph on the same page roughly next to its screenshot. That screenshot came out of the PROSTEP.LZH archive file as found in People/Link's Amiga Zone PRO library. Thus the screenshot is of Bob Hosch's WorkBench screen, not mine. To achieve the look of his WorkBench, Hosch used (as explained in the .doc file inside PROSTEP.LZH): -SetCPU 1.5 which yields the "FastBench" screen title. Note that Dave Haynie took this feature out of SetCPU 1.6 because it messed up some programs which wanted to find a screen named "WorkBench" -SimGen was used to give the marbelized background look by applying an IFF picture to the WorkBench screen -NewLook was used to give the WorkBench window gadgets that, well, new look :) The icons on the screen, such as the disk icon for his "Big Bertha" partition, and the others were, I assume, also Bob Hosch's creations although his .doc file didn't go into any detail about if he mad them errr made them, or if not, where they came from. The huge THING in the middle of the screen is the interface for ProStep itself - it's a program which talks to ASDG's ADPro thru ARexx (thus, both are required to use it) to shuffle a bunch of pictures into and out of ADPro and convert them from one format to another using the same parameters. So if you want to make your WorkBench screen look like Hosch's screen, those are the pieces you'll need, plus, of course, a nice IFF of some kind of marble surface in a format that SimGen will accept. (Apologies for not remembering the names of the authors of SimGen and NewLook). "Half of me wants to knock you out. Harv Laser Half of me wants to tell you that {anywhere}!crash!hrlaser I'm sorry..." American People/Link: CBM*HARV -- "Half of me wants to knock you out. Harv Laser Half of me wants to tell you that {anywhere}!crash!hrlaser I'm sorry..." American People/Link: CBM*HARV