3.9 desktop icon text question

[Bamiga2002]

Originally Posted by ancalimon

Is it possible to use PowerIcons just for this purpose? I am already using PeterK's icon.library and I don't want PowerIcons to get in the way and make things slower (it also causes ugly icon dragging)

Also you don't need PowerIcons if you're using the new icon.library. Just ditch PowerIcons.

[ancalimon]

Originally Posted by Bamiga2002

Also you don't need PowerIcons if you're using the new icon.library. Just ditch PowerIcons.

Last time I used PowerIcons was when Amithlon was first released. Back in those days my 4000T stopped working so I used Amithlon for some time. But I loved its antialiasing effect on fonts.

[Bamiga2002]

The anti-aliasing font is also available using Afa_OS but Afa is not recommended because it has bugs...

[Amon_RA]

I'm about to receive a real Picasso IV card so I thought I would already play around with the P96 drivers on my A4000 CWB OS3.9 setup running on WinUAE (emulating a Picassa IV).
Using P96 drivers seems to turn fonts that used to be black into white or just transparent as visible in the attached pictures...

It doesn't happen when I set the screenmode to 8 bit, as soon as I set it to 16 or 24 bit the font issue appears.

Is this a WinUAE issue, or will I face the same issue on a real A4000 with Picasso IV card running CWB OS3.9?

I've set the Workbench Icon Font (Ff button) to Mode "Text+Field".
I've disabled :
- Fblit/Ftext,
- BlazeWCP,
- IconBeFast,
- CyberBugFix

As several people already mention a FixFonts should do the trick... but how do I do a FixFonts?

Coppper also doesn't work anymore (not sure if it should work with RTG cards?

[Daedalus]

I haven't come across that issue using P96 with a Voodoo 3, but would be interested to know if it's a Picasso IV-specific issue. As for the various patches you have, they shouldn't make a difference because they're no use to a system using RTG. When the system uses an RTG screenmode, it's no longer using the Amiga blitter or copper, so code involving either of those won't do anything.

[honx]

Originally Posted by James

The icon.library package already includes an OutlineIconText command, or you can try OutlineFont:

http://aminet.net/package/util/wb/outlinefont14

i'm trying to setup outlinefont, added it to user-startup like in document:
run >nil: C:OutlineFont 6 1 1 SHADOW (after copying it to c: of course)
so it should pick the 7th color for text and the second color for background.
it should be one pixel wide and there should be a shadow. but it does nothing.
what is wrong? don't understand. even tried older outlinefont, same nothing.