Utility that removes icon text box

Bloodwych · 12 June 2004, 00:07

Burseg has made some fantastic wallpapers for use under P96 but they are spoilt when the icons have ugly coloured boxes surrounding their text.

Any stand alone utility/hack to remove these boxes under workbench 3?

I know something does the job as I've seen screenshots containing the desired effect, although it could be part of some larger utilility I haven't installed and don't like using (like MCP).

12 June 2004, 00:20

You can do that from workbench preferences. It's not like windoz

12 June 2004, 00:24

click once and set it to "text"!

Bloodwych · 12 June 2004, 11:51

LOL! Thanks Burseg! Goes to show your never too old to learn.

All these years of using workbench and I NEVER realised that option was there! Then again, I never really used wallpapers on my setups so I had no reason to explore. Probably read that in the manual 12 years ago or something and completely forgot.

And to think I went to the trouble of editing your last wallpaper to get around the problem. Yes I think I've been using Winows 9x for too long with its text box limitation. Long live workbench!

Right, time to update.

ant512 · 12 June 2004, 13:10

You can also use TitleShadow from the aminet (ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/...itleshadow.lha), which will add either a 1 pixel outline or a drop shadow around the text in the current text background colour.

EDIT: Ack, no it won't. It adds the effect to the text in the titlebar of all windows. I've got this mixed up with Scalos and Directory Opus Magellan II, both of which alter the icon text as specified above.

12 June 2004, 00:07	#1
Bloodwych Moderator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I'm behind you! Posts: 3,763	Utility that removes icon text box Burseg has made some fantastic wallpapers for use under P96 but they are spoilt when the icons have ugly coloured boxes surrounding their text. Any stand alone utility/hack to remove these boxes under workbench 3? I know something does the job as I've seen screenshots containing the desired effect, although it could be part of some larger utilility I haven't installed and don't like using (like MCP). Last edited by Bloodwych; 12 June 2004 at 00:14.

12 June 2004, 00:24	#3
oldpx Posts: n/a	click once and set it to "text"! Attached Thumbnails

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12 June 2004, 00:20	#2
oldpx Posts: n/a	You can do that from workbench preferences. It's not like windoz

12 June 2004, 11:51	#4
Bloodwych Moderator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: I'm behind you! Posts: 3,763	LOL! Thanks Burseg! Goes to show your never too old to learn. All these years of using workbench and I NEVER realised that option was there! Then again, I never really used wallpapers on my setups so I had no reason to explore. Probably read that in the manual 12 years ago or something and completely forgot. And to think I went to the trouble of editing your last wallpaper to get around the problem. Yes I think I've been using Winows 9x for too long with its text box limitation. Long live workbench! Right, time to update.

12 June 2004, 13:10	#5
ant512 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: California Posts: 965	You can also use TitleShadow from the aminet (ftp://de.aminet.net/pub/aminet/util/...itleshadow.lha), which will add either a 1 pixel outline or a drop shadow around the text in the current text background colour. EDIT: Ack, no it won't. It adds the effect to the text in the titlebar of all windows. I've got this mixed up with Scalos and Directory Opus Magellan II, both of which alter the icon text as specified above.

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