Re: [MiNT] gradients,FreeMiNT 1.18

[Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>]

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:38:44 , "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de> wrote:
> Am 28.07.2011, 21:48 Uhr, schrieb Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>:
>
> > I don't know how the widgets and gradients have been implemented so I
> > don't
> > know how much work is involved in creating a viewer like the one in
> > Windos
> > control panel.
>
>
> Huh? Didn't know windows has this! But that's the thing I had in mind
> (though it seems it's integrated in the windows-desktop and not external).

Yes under the Display Properties - Appearance tab.
 
> > However, without an easy way of seeing the options on offer. all the
> > work on the nice visuals is a bit wasted.
>
> It's not that difficult (at least on aranym):
>
> 1. Download the gradient-directory from the cvs
> 2. copy a template to your new file (e.g. my.c)
> 3. write gradients=my in xaaes.cnf
> 4. do your changes
> 5. type make my.grd
> 6. copy my.grd over into XaAES-gradient-dir
> 7. restart XaAES
> 8. Goto 4. or done.
>
> But when you enter wrong values XaAES may crash badly (changing rgb-values
> seems not risky).
>
>

Does it required 'make' just to install a gradient ?
Not difficult but a bore and time consuming and then you forget what
the third setting looked like.

There are a set of .grd files in the daily builds but without installing
each one and rebooting loads of times I don't even know what they look like.

Widgets were introduced 7-8 years ago and I went through the set once
and once only. I saved them as a set of jpegs in case I ever decided to
change. I think there are more now but I have never bothered with the
hassle of having a look at them.

Regards,

Peter