Several OS3.x questions, please have a look! -update

[Cammy]

1. You will need to register MUI if you want to change the look of it and save it, but once you do you can configure an individual look for each application, or have them all just use the global settings. You can register MUI here - http://www.sasg.com/mui/

7. If you use this tool, you only need to run it once with each font you want to use with an outline, then you never have to run a patch or hack again. What it does is creates a ColorFont version of your selected font, usually it will be white with a black outline but you can choose the colours you want to use. Once created, just select the new outlined version of the font and save it as your icon font - http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/CreateOutline

If you'd like to enhance the look of Workbench further, you will need to install VisualPrefs and Birdie - http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/VisualPrefs and http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/birdie2000

[Cammy]

7. You can try CreateOutline, but it never worked right for my A1200T.

It works fine here on my A1200 020, A1200 030, A600 and CD32. If you'd like me to make an outlined version of a font, just send me the font and I'll send back an outlined version.

Be aware that VisualPrefs can be tricky to get working, IME .....

Yes, VisualPrefs is pretty tricky, it requires that you know how to operate a mouse so you can click on an Installer icon, follow a simple installation procedure, then reboot! It's best to take it one step at a time, and do everything in the right order. Do not try rebooting before the installation process has finished, and don't try to run it before it's been installed. Also, make sure the mouse is plugged in or you'll have to use the keyboard to move the cursor around the screen. After the installation and reboot, you'll still need to remember how you operated the mouse from before you rebooted, which is with your hand if you have one. Then you have to navigate the deep, dark depths of your hard drive by going into Workbench:Prefs/ and running the new GUI preferences tool. Don't get scared!

[Cammy]

CreateOutline isn't a patch. It creates a ColorFont which is supported by Workbench. Once the font is made, you select it and it's done. It requires less memory than a patch because nothing extra needs to be run.

The screenshot you showed is of OS4 and MUI 3.9, you can't get scrollbars like that in MUI 3.8 either. Are there any scrollbar gadgets in Xen/Scrollbars in the MUI images? Are NewLook scrollbars selected instead of one of the Xen scrollbars?

Could you take a screenshot of your Workbench with SGrab or Personal Paint or something, if I can see the problem I might know how to fix it.

[Cammy]

Icon text border
 
I played around with a few programs on Aminet, but they gave a very ugly outline around my Icon titles. I recall them looking better with just plain Newicons. When I use createoutline, the result looks just as worse and it keeps drawing a rectangle around the text. So no luck there so far.

You might still have Text & Field selected. If you use an outlined colorfont, you need to choose just Text.