#MagicWB palette
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To all MagicWB users,
I can not seem to get the paette set right for my workbench screen
to show the proper icon colors of MagicWB. If I unarchive them to
ram: and look at them thru Diropus they look great. But if I try to
use them thru workbench they appear shifted to blue and/or grey. I
have tried loading the palette.ilbm as the default palette as well as
the Palette3.0. I am using AmigaDOS 2.04. I really do like the way
the icons look thru Opus but the don't look the same in use. I did
not use the install program, but manually installed all the files
(heard to many problems with the install program here on Ci$ to trust
it). Any ideas?
Steve,
I used the install program and it worked fine for me. I'm using WB2.1.
Have you set the number of colors in the ScreenMode Preferences? It should
be eight colors.
Christopher
Chris,
I have tried both 8 color and 16 color from prefs but the palette is
still off color drom what it shows if I use some type of utility to view
them. I may try to reinstall using the instal program, but I remeber
hearing all kinds of strange things happening when it first appeared here
on CI$. Thanks for the response.
…Steve
====>>> Motorola 68030 Inside <<<====
I installed MagicWB a little while, and nothing weird happened to me.
Except that the unarchiving program that came with MWB wouldn't unarchive
it. I ended up just using a different one, though, with no hassles.
zzzzz…..
The Sandman…..
zzzzz…..
The Sandman…..
Steve,
in order to obtain to correct pallette for MagicWB, you are going
to have to use the install program included with the package. There
are too many problems with attempting to manually install the package
to go into one by one.
BTW, the installation was not the problem for many users, it was the
actual de-archiving that presented a problem. That had more to do with a
problem with the included de-archiver than anything else.
Thanx Brian,
Will try to reinstall tonite or tommorow, just backed up DH0: to make
sure everything is hunky dori.
…Steve
====>>> Motorola 68030 Inside <<<====
Steve,
that was my approach as well. If you want to cut down on what you need
to back up, just back up your ENV: and ENVARC: directories to floppy.
That is where the most problems, if any, may occur.
Tried installing MagicWB from the instaler and it still comes up
with a different pallete than what is shown with DirOpus showicon
button. Everything still seems shifted to a blue/grey color. They
look beautiful from Opus. They don't look bad on the workbench but I
sure wish I could get this pallete straight. Will play with it some
more tonite. Is there a way I could load the icons into Dpaint (or
something) and save the pallete from that and use it from the
workbench?.
Are you using WB1.3 by any chance? That would reverse the colors.
No, I'm using 2.04.
Steve,
I am using workbench 3.1 and have the same problem. Same blue-grey muted
colour scheme, but totally different when I view thru Opus. Only thing is,
I think the Opus-viewed icons are garish! 🙂
Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
>>I am using workbench 3.1 and have the same problem. Same blue-grey muted
>>colour scheme, but totally different when I view thru Opus. Only thing
>>is, I think the Opus-viewed icons are garish! 🙂
Really? I do like the way they look in Opus a LOT better than they
appear on workbench, have you looked at the seperate archive recently
uploaded of nothing but MagicWB icons (Mwbico.lha), they are
gorgious. I am glad that I am not the only one though who can't get
the pallete straight.
Steve,
Hi. I had no problems at all with the MagicWB palette. However, one
problem I've had lately is the display of icons within Dir Opus. My icons
look great on the WB, but always look funny and garish when viewing them
from Dir Opus. Sounds like the opposite situation from you.
Dom Fontana
–> Sent from NY via AP <–
Hi Dominick, long time no chat!
All the `standard' icons look correct from Opus except for the ones
that came with MagicWB and a recently uploaded package of MagicWB created
especially for MagicWB, which IMHO look great with Opus (not that they
look that bad from workrbench) and I just wish I could get WB to display
them in the same pallete as from Opus.
…Steve
====>>> Motorola 68030 Inside <<<====
Steve,
Hi. Like I said, all my MagicWB and other icons look great on the
WB, but they all display in different colors through DirOpus and I
don't know why.
Take care.
Dom Fontana
–> Sent from NY via AP <–
Steve,
I wonder if we are comparing the same thing? You wouldn't like to select a
specific icon and try to describe it exhaustively, would you?
Pete Jones, flying on AutoPilot from Brussels, Belgium
Peter,
I think Brian Bartlett has hit on the right idea, that Opus's Icon
viewer is using the pallete from Opus to show the icons not the pallete
from WB. Will verify this later today to see if that is the case. If so
I guess this is a problem with Opus that Jonathan Potter should check out.
No sense in using an Icon viewer that sets its own pallete!
…Steve
====>>> Motorola 68030 Inside <<<====
Where did you get Workbench 3.1?
As a journalist, I am afraid I can't reveal my sources.<g> You may
rest assured, however, that it doesn't get any farther than me. I am
not about to bite the hand that feeds me!
Steve,
on this question, I don't have a clue. The pallete loaded up just fine
here, and I know I had several saved palletes installed in ENVARC:.
Sorry.
PMJI… If I understand correctly, using Opus (ICONINFO) the icons
appear to have multiple colours [GB English sorry :)], if you just
double click on the icon from Opus though you should get roughly what
they'll look like on the WB. This is what happens here anyway. I
think part of the archive includes a picture of what the finished
article will look like, that'll tell you if I'm talking rubbish or not
:), it should also let you know what to expect. If you've done the
above and still not getting what you want, what can I say,:).
Personally, I think the blue/grey effect is pretty neat.
// Ken on Autopilot
\X/ (:-)
Ken, Your analysis (and GB spelling (-:) arecorrect. If I double
click the icon in Opus the icons show up with a lot of reds and
yellows even after installed on the workbench partition, but on the
actual workbench screen they are grey/blue. The blue grey doesn't
look that bad but they look so much better thru Opus. I have tried
both 8 and 16 color workbench preferences. It is not a really big
deal but is does have me curious as hell as to why they show up this
way.
Steve,
it sounds to me that DirOpus is using a palette different from that of
your MagicWB. Have you tried editting the palette that DirOpus uses to
match that of the WB?
I don't know if that would help, or render DirOpus unusable (some
programs look sickly if you change their palettes), as I do not have
DirOpus here.
That makes a lot of sense, will check out the differences between
Opus pallete and WB's. If this turns out to be true, there is no
point in an icon viewer that does not use the WB pallete as then all
icons viewed will be in the wrongs colors! Thanx.