DESCRIPTION

  Since years I've been desiring my Workbench being able to display default icons
  (i.e the icons shown when no real .info file exists) with transparency: it would
  have been nice introducing such a feature, both aesthetically and for the user,
  who could visually understand more clearly which icons are "real" and wich ones
  not. So I found out the time to write Ghosty, hoping it may make happy other
  amigans too :-)


 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

  AmigaOS 3.5 (needs icon.library v44+ Ghosty applies a patch to DrawIconState() )

  An Hi/True Color Workbench runing on a CGX/P96 compatible GFX card

  A fast CPU to avoid scattering icon scrolling (Amithlon or MorphOS recommended)
  

 INSTALLATION

  Simply copy Ghosty with its icon (please don't call me "dark" :-b) in your
  WBStartup drawer. Make sure that the button "Wait until finished" in your
  WB Information requester is off.
  If you're using a 68K amiga or (better!) Amithlon, copy the 68K version. If you
  have MorphOS installed (goood!) please copy the PPC one which is really faster!

  Note: the PPC version requires MorphOS, it is NOT intended for usage under other
  PPC kernels like WarpOS or PowerUP, your system will surely crash otherwise.
  The PPC version is mainly useful to those (few) people who use the original Amiga
  Workbench under MorphOS emulation, mainly on PPC Amigas. Ghosty PPC DOESN'T work
  properly with Ambient, since Ambient uses its own internal icon mechanism.
  I provided the PPC version because it's really much faster than the 68K one, and
  actually I'm using my Workbench under MorphOS emulation on my Pegasos but... I
  know, I'm crazy (crazy but happy :-b)


 USAGE

  Very little to know about. Actually there're three tooltypes:

  -PERCENT=x
   where x ranges from 0 to 100 and means how much transparency will be
   applied to the icons. 0 means you won't see anything, 100 means you'll
   get no transparency. Good choices range from about 30 to 50, depending
   on the choosen icon text color, background pattern, etc. (defaults to 50)

  -NOGHOSTTEXT
   means you don't want the transparency applied to icon labels, only to the icon
   itself (default is ghosting the text too)

  -QUIET
   suppress copyright notices at startup time

  Ghosty is mainly intended to be launched from WBStartup drawer, but if
  you like you may place it at the end of your startup sequence.
  The synthax to launch Ghosty from the command line is

   RUN >NIL: Ghosty [PERCENT=n] [NOGHOSTTEXT] [QUIET]


 LEGAL

  Ghosty is PetitionWare !
  If you like it and use it, please write a request to Stephan Rupprecht asking
  him to send me the sources of DefIcons, underlining that I won't spread them
  in any way and I need them for personal purposes only.
  The matter is: I LOVE DefIcons, I can't live without. Unfortunately, here with
  Pegasos/MorphOS it often crashes :-(
  I'm sure that's not a DefIcons bug, rather a MorphOS one. But without the
  source code I cannot reproduce it and help MorphOS authors to fix it! I wrote
  kindly to Stephan asking that, but he answered he can't.


 AUTHOR

  Please send any bugs or suggestions, if any, to Elena:
  <uni-dea@jumpy.it>
  or visit my homepage
  <www.elena-fractals.it>
  Ghosty is © Elena Novaretti 2003


 ENJOY GHOSTY!

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[generic]                 1852    3608  51.3% -lh6- ab0a Apr 28  2003 Ghosty/Ghosty.readme
[generic]                 1651    4789  34.5% -lh6- 0415 Apr 28  2003 Ghosty/Ghosty.readme.info
[generic]                 5763    9280  62.1% -lh6- 4aa9 Apr 28  2003 Ghosty/Ghosty68K
[generic]                 2329    2497  93.3% -lh6- 6db9 Apr 28  2003 Ghosty/Ghosty68K.info
[generic]                 9590   26124  36.7% -lh6- 87b0 Apr 28  2003 Ghosty/GhostyMOS
[generic]                 5997    8521  70.4% -lh6- d067 Apr 28  2003 Ghosty/GhostyMOS.info
[generic]                  352     511  68.9% -lh6- 1f44 Apr 28  2003 Ghosty.info
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