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Short: Draws an outline on your Workbench icon text.
Author: Daniel Nyberg <daniel@dalnet.se> and Jonathan Gapen <innuendo@execpc.com>
Uploader: Jonathan Gapen <innuendo@execpc.com>
Version: 1.1
Type: util/wb
This is a partial re-write of the OutlineFont patch program by
Danial Nyberg. It draws an outline around the icon labels on
Workbench, increasing the readability on some background images,
and just generally looking snazzier. I liked the effect, but I
thought the whole patching deal of the original OutlineFont
program was a bit overkill just to patch a single function. So I
took about an hour and re-wrote it to call SetFunction() straight
out, and to use dos.library/ReadArgs() to parse the command line.
That chopped over 1k off the size of the executable. Not bad.
I've included the source to this version, in case anybody gets
the urge to hack on it further. I'll probably forget all about
it anyway, once NewIcons includes this feature.
Here are the original instructions:
Requirements:
AmigaOS 3.0 or higher.
68020 or better.
Installation:
Copy OulineFont to c:, or add a path to the OutlineFont
directory.
Start Prefs/Font
Choose "Select Workbench Icon text..."
Select the font and field colour you want.
The field colour will be used for the outline.
Select mode "Text+Field".
Select OK; and save the font settings.
Add "run >nil: OutlineFont <text> <field> <width>" to
your startup-sequence, before LoadWB.
"<text>" is the palette number of the text colour you
choose in Prefs/Font.
"<field>" is the fiels colour.
"<width>" is the outline width.
Example: "run >nil: OutlineFont 2 1 1"
This will use colour 2 for the text and 1 for the outline.
The outline width will be 1 pixel. If you are using the
standard Workbench or MagicWB palette this will give you
a white font text with a black border.