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From: perry@sfsup.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Workbench backdrop pattern program(s)
Message-ID: <1220@sfsup.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Mar-87 11:25:50 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 18 11:25:50 1987
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Summary: Back drop for workbench

In article <1470@masscomp.UUCP>, garyo@masscomp.UUCP writes:
> 
> I got fed up with the monocolor backdrop of the Amiga screen, and the fact
> that you couldn't tell the interior of a window from the screen background.
> So I wrote this program that puts up a backdrop pattern, or tablecloth, on
> the workbench screen.
> 

Eric Lavitsky and I got bored with that a few months ago. And wrote a program
(way back) then to add patterns to the workbench screen.

> Its problem is that it doesn't work when the Workbench is loaded, since it
> opens its OWN backdrop window, just like the WB.  They compete, icons
> disappear and can't be dragged, etc.  But if you use CLI exclusively, it's
> just the greatest.

Our code works perfectly well with the workbench. Eric will be posting
the program in a few days since there seems to be such interest.

Perry