Author Topic: How can I make my OS3.9 GUI look nicer? (Read 4440 times)

LP · « **on:** May 09, 2003, 01:17:34 PM »

I've been wondering for some time now...
If I download a WBscreenshot from eg. Aminet, I allways see flashy windows w/textures and millions of colors... But I haven't been able to get my GUI to like that... The closest I've come is textures inside the window... Can I get a program that can actually texture map the window borders too?

Example WBscreenshot from Aminet...

Thomas · « **Reply #1 on:** May 09, 2003, 01:28:22 PM »

VisualPrefs allows to change the system gadgets (close, size, depth) and Birdie allows to render textures into the window borders.

http://uk.aminet.net/aminetbin/find?visualprefs.lha
http://vgr.com/birdie1/

Read the docs carefully because these two interfere with each other.

Bye,
Thomas

LP · « **Reply #2 on:** May 09, 2003, 01:33:45 PM »

Thanks... I've heard about birdie before, does it work with P96 or only CGFX?

jd997uk · « **Reply #3 on:** May 09, 2003, 01:35:52 PM »

@LP

Easy.
1.MagicMenu to get the see thru menus
2. Birdie to get the patterned window borders.
3. VisualPrefs for the glyphs(buttons, and many other changes to the border drawing.

All of the above work with both P96 and CGFX.

BTW, I've got a Mediator/Voodoo with my 1200 and they all work well.

-john

LP · « **Reply #4 on:** May 09, 2003, 01:40:03 PM »

Thanks alot guys!...

It might slow my system down a bit, am I right? :-?

kadi · « **Reply #5 on:** May 09, 2003, 02:21:56 PM »

It slows down a tiny little bit, but on a 1260/50 with a PCI-GFX board you will hardly notice that.

LP · « **Reply #6 on:** May 09, 2003, 02:25:45 PM »

cheers! :pint:

SlimJim · « **Reply #7 on:** May 09, 2003, 02:48:36 PM »

Don't forget that half the fun is to change the icons to
better-looking ones (I have a wide selection of Icons from
Aminet that I put on programs I start often). Goes a long way
towards that "custom feel". :-)
.
SlimJim

xeron · « **Reply #8 on:** May 09, 2003, 04:55:30 PM »

Don't forget to try out TitleShadow!

LP · « **Reply #9 on:** May 13, 2003, 03:01:32 PM »

Thanks guys I'm using Birdie with great pleasure... Looks nice...

Cheers to all of you :-)

bloodline · « **Reply #10 on:** May 13, 2003, 04:46:08 PM »

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Re: How can I make my OS3.9 GUI look nicer?

Get glasses? :-D (sorry couldn't resist)

Mason · « **Reply #11 on:** May 13, 2003, 05:33:51 PM »

Maybe this will help: www.masonicons.de

marcfrick2112 · « **Reply #12 on:** May 14, 2003, 06:38:23 PM »

Hello, One other idea is to use BootChange, or similar program (e.g. from Aminet) that will change your WB background and window background pics, randomly on Boot-Up. On My '060 1200 Sys. (No Graphics card :-? it slows booting by a second, and uses a bit more of precious CHIP RAM, but I think the effect is worth it.
Since I run an AGA Ami with a 64 color WB, I load my pics into an image processing program to reduce the Cols.

N0wee · « **Reply #13 on:** May 14, 2003, 10:41:56 PM »

For a change I'll make a bit of advertisment, not to
let my good friend mason alone

www.nowee.org/overshaker the amiga themes website.

Kurt · « **Reply #14 on:** May 15, 2003, 04:06:42 AM »

WARNING WARNING!!!
Birdie makes your amiga unstable and has been known to cause strange and unusual problems with certain combo's of software.
if you like to reboot your amiga several times a day go right ahead and install birdie.

kurt

some people don't notice this effect because they have so many patches installed. Thier machine already crashes more than a PC.