Short: Draws an outline on your Workbench icon text. Author: Daniel Nyberg (daniel@dalnet.se> Uploader: Daniel Nyberg (daniel dalnet se) Type: util/wb Version: 1.0 Architecture: m68k-amigaos This is an utility I wrote some time ago, just after I bought a CyberVision64 graphics board. I was annoyed by the fact that the font text was almost unreadable with some background images. So I quickly wrote this util that draws an thin outline around the icon texts. The outline can be of any colour and width. I prefer a black outline, 1 pixel wide, and with white text. I have included a screen shot from my Workbench showing how it will look like once you got it installed. Requirements: AmigaOS 3.0 or higher. 68020 or better. Installation: Copy OulineFont to c:, or add a path to the OutlineFont directory. Start Prefs/Font Choose "Select Workbench Icon text..." Select the font and field colour you want. The field colour will be used for the outline. Select mode "Text+Field". Select OK; and save the font settings. Add "run >nil: OutlineFont " to your startup-sequence, before LoadWB. "" is the palette number of the text colour you choosed in Prefs/Font. "" is the fiels colour. "" is the outline width. Example: "run >nil: OutlineFont 2 1 1" This will use colour 2 for the text and 1 for the outline. The outline width will be 1 pixel. If you are using the standard Workbench or MagicWB palette this will give you a white font text with a black border. This is just a quick "hack", and could be done much better. Please feel free to improve it, or write a completely new OutlineFont util. I have included the crappy, badly coded source. It's based on some example code in some RKM or NDU, I think. It's been over a year since I touched it. I don't have the time, nor the motivation to spend any more time on this... Anyway, I hope it works on your system as good as it does on mine. :) It's been tested on the following systems: A4000, CyberStorm060, 32 MB FastRAM, CyberVision64 in 8/16/24-bit. A4000/030, 16MB FastRam, AGA in 1-8 bit modes. The screen shot is from my Workbench running in 800x600 24-bit.