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

[rvo_nl]

Another update:
 
Visualprefs
 
I've fixed the issue with the scrollbars using VisualPrefs. A bit of a fiddle, but it now even looks a bit like the screenshot I gave earlier! Thanks for all your suggestions. I have two questions about Visual Prefs though:
 
- it keeps asking for AmigaOS3.5, why is this and where can I assign it to?
- in the manual it says I need the program TRAP to force ReAction to use Vprefs' template. However the site doesnt exist and aminet doesnt have it. Do I still need it? Can someone send it to me? ReAction prefs is now looking very weird.
 
Blizkick
 
Working fine, but I still wonder whether I should load the FastFileSystem module.
 
PPC version of SFS
 
I still dont know what to do with this. Anyone?
 
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.

[kvasir]

Hello again, long time, no see! :-D

Another update:

Blizkick
 
Working fine, but I still wonder whether I should load the FastFileSystem module.

I don't really use FFS except for various ZIP disks, but I still have it in mine, and it doesn't seem to hurt anything. Might be handy if somebody gives you removable media of some sort that uses it.

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.

I use PowerIcons, which changes the font background color to a border color if you use TEXTMODE=1 in startup-sequence. My entry is:

run >nil: c:powericons NEGATIVE SCROLLSPEEDUP TEXTMODE=1 GHOST=60 >nil:

Not sure about PPC SFS, as I still push a 060, though I imagine it would be alot faster. :-D

[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.

[rvo_nl]

Hi Cammy, sorry but no, wasnt the case. Output from CreateOutline is very dissapointing, the standard Newicons 'icon creator' or whatever it was called did a much better job.
 
Hi Kvasir Thanks, will give that a try!

[Matt_H]

@ rvo_nl

Oops! You're right, that outline option isn't there. It was added in 4.0. My mistake

For a default look for all your drawers, set up a drawer how you like it, snapshot, and copy it's .info file to ENVARC:Sys/def_drawer.info. From then on, all new drawers you create (and those without their own icons) will have those settings as default.

As to scrollbars, it sounds like you'll soon have Visual Prefs working (that AmigaOS3.5: reference is probably just from a badly-configured config file that uses absolute rather than relative paths), but I'm attaching some screengrabs of MUI prefs. They're from OS4, though the standard and custom views will be identical under 3.x. OS4's GUI prefs (analogous to VisualPrefs) are responsible for the look of newlook.

The AslPrefs in WBStartup reference you found has to do with an ASL replacement/patch from before the OS3.5 era. You don't need to worry about it.

[rvo_nl]

Hey Matt_H, thanks for the very informative reply. Will have a look tonight, but it looks like I can solve 1 or 2 issues with this info, thanks a lot!

[rvo_nl]

ok, scrollbars look pretty okay now, thanks to visual prefs and the screenshots from Matt_H.
 
Icon text border is still a problem though. Powericons does a great job and since I was using Ghosty already, could be an excellent program. But again the outline on the icon labels looks very jaggy and pixelated. Perhaps Im just not used to this anymore, in the days if windows cleartype. So, still not sure about this
 
But thanks all, for your help.
 
BTW, that default icon tip was really useful. I never thought of that before!