Selecting a wallpaper on WBPattern (WB3.1)

[clitosa]

Hi all We have made a simple picture on Deluxe Paint we would like to use as a wallpaper.

But when going into WBPattern, we should (according to the manual) be given the option to select a picture. (see pic 1 from our manual)

However, when using WBPattern we are not given the option (see pic 2 of our screen shot)

Please advise

[DH]

Click 'Type' button over 'Pattern' which will cycle through the various modes until it lands on 'Picture', then you'll be able to select the image of your choice

[thomas]

@clitosa:

Your pic 2 shows WBPattern prefs of WB 2.1. Pictures can only be used with WBPattern of WB 3.0 or 3.1

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by DemonHellraiser

Click 'Type' button over 'Pattern' which will cycle through the various modes until it lands on 'Picture', then you'll be able to select the image of your choice

Thanks Demon - Thanks, but we have no Type button within our WBPattern

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by thomas

@clitosa:

Your pic 2 shows WBPattern prefs of WB 2.1. Pictures can only be used with WBPattern of WB 3.0 or 3.1

Hi Thomas - WB2.1 prefs? How can that be? We are 100% certain using WB3.1

Can this be fixed?

Thanks for the input

[thomas]

Copy WBPattern from the Extras3.1 floppy disk to your harddrive.

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by thomas

Copy WBPattern from the Extras3.1 floppy disk to your harddrive.

Thanks Thomas - we shall try that and let u know.

Thanks again for your help

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by thomas

Copy WBPattern from the 3.1 Extras floppy disk to your harddrive.

Hi Thomas - We have copied over to our WB Preferences folder the WBPattern directory from our WB3.1 Extras floppy disk as recommended. (see stages 1 & 2 of the enclosed picture.)

However, when trying to open the newly copied WBPattern folder we are presented with the following error message:

Requires iffparse.library V39

This is also shown in the enclosed picture at stage 3.

We would appreciate any advice you could give which may resolve the problem.

Thanks for your input.

[thomas]

Please select Version/Copyright from the menu and post a screenshot.

I suppose you have WB 2.1 installed on your HDD and not WB 3.1. At least many parts of your WB are from 2.1.

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by thomas

Please select Version/Copyright from the menu and post a screenshot.

I suppose you have WB 2.1 installed on your HDD and not WB 3.1. At least many parts of your WB are from 2.1.

Thanks Thomas - will do this and post today. Thanks, m

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by thomas

Please select Version/Copyright from the menu and post a screenshot.

I suppose you have WB 2.1 installed on your HDD and not WB 3.1. At least many parts of your WB are from 2.1.

Hi Thomas - We are unable to see any Version/Copyright from a WB menu. Sorry we are new to amiga OS.

If it helps, we have gone to Workbench>About from the top right menu and enclosed the attached pictures one & two. Maybe this helps?

Thanks for your time on this

[mark_k]

Workbench version 38 is release 2.1. (Version 39 would be 3.0 and 40 would be 3.1.)

So it looks like you're actually using Workbench 2.1.

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by mark_k

Workbench version 38 is release 2.1. (Version 39 would be 3.0 and 40 would be 3.1.)

So it looks like you're actually using Workbench 2.1.

Version 38 is WB2.1?

That goes to show how little we know. (or did know) Thanks anyway

We do have the necessary six WB3.1 disks floppy disks we could try and install onto the DH0. But have concerns this will effect files on other parts of the hard drive. (ie those found DH1 and 2)

It might help others if i started a new thread with these installation questions on there.

Thanks to everyone for their help on this matter. Much appreciated

[mark_k]

What I would do, is hook the hard disk up to a PC and create an image file of the entire drive. That way, if you screw up you can revert to as it was before the changes. Explaining exactly how to do that is a bit too off-topic for this thread though.

[clitosa]

Originally Posted by mark_k

What I would do, is hook the hard disk up to a PC and create an image file of the entire drive. That way, if you screw up you can revert to as it was before the changes. Explaining exactly how to do that is a bit too off-topic for this thread though.

Thank M - That sounds sensible to make a back up.

We have an internal 4GB SanDisk CF which we can connect to our laptop through a CF Reader if (that's a possibility).

In the past we have only connected CF cards to the laptop to transfer files between the two platforms using a fat32 formated CF and the amiga pcmcia.

Will start a new thread and link it to this one.

Many Thanks,

[thomas]

A simple

cd sys:
lha -erax a cf0:backup

should do as backup, too, and is probably much faster. Only make sure that you have a boot disk which can access cf0 and has the lha program to restore the backup.

However, while you are at it you should make your boot partition a bit bigger as it was reported as being full in your other thread. Changing partition size implied that you loose all contents of the changed partitions. So better make backups of all partitions.