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From: garyo@masscomp.UUCP (Gary Oberbrunner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Cosmetic changes to Workbench
Message-ID: <958@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-May-86 12:43:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: masscomp.958
Posted: Mon May  5 12:43:14 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 6-May-86 05:57:20 EDT
References: <5363@alice.uUCp> <30@intelca.UUCP>
Reply-To: garyo@masscomp.UUCP (Gary Oberbrunner)
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Keywords: Amiga, Workbench, colors, shadows
Summary: Use fill patterns, not more colors.

In article <30@intelca.UUCP> cem@intelca.UUCP writes:
>...So your
>suggestion needs 1 color for the background, 1 for the inactive windows,
>1 for the active window, 1 for the pull down menus (you could probably
>cheat here and use the active window color), 1 for the text, and one 
>for highlighted text. Thats 6 colors.
>
>--Chuck

But what's wrong with using the blitter's built-in fill patterns?  Fill the
empty background space with checkerboards.  This looks fine and saves a color.

While we're at it, why oh WHY don't the windows on the Workbench (and all
windows, in fact) have drop shadows?  That one little item adds loads of visual
clarity, and makes window interaction much clearer (this is the main reason
why Mac windows look SO MUCH better than Intuition windows).  It's 
a royal pain to have to link in your own Image struct onto the default window's
just to get a simple drop shadow.

Of course, drop shadows are much easier with a textured background - just use
the solid background color for the shadows.  No new colors necessary.

			- Gary Oberbrunner
			{allegra,ihnp4,harvard}!masscomp!garyo