Large Window furniture - unobtainable?
jim lesurf (2082) 1438 posts |
I’ve been trying to find or create a set of window tools which are bigger than the standard size. Know this is possible from the far past. Now hit a puzzle. http://www.riscos.org/resources/themes.html The above can link me to a page by Paul Vigay that offers his old software for generating toolsets. But the link to the zip doesn’t work! Is his old prog now unobtainium? Does anyone now provide an alernative you’d recommnend? I know a x2 sized set was available in the past, but I can’t track it down. And I also recall a comment about simply changing two of the toolsprites from 180 dpi to 90 dpi triggering an x2 sized set on screen, but I haven’t yet found that again. Is there a simple way to do this? Or has doing it become lost in the mists of time?… |
Stuart Painting (5389) 714 posts |
NetSurf 3.11 did indeed fail to download the file (“Unacceptable Type”) but Safari on macOS worked (after answering the captcha on the site, natch). Do you have another browser you can try? UPDATE: I’ve just discovered how to do it with NetSurf. When you see the page “About to download ToolMaker” click on the link given in the bottom right corner of the grey box (i.e. on the line below the message “Your download will begin shortly”). You only get a few seconds, because the auto-download will soon start (and fail). |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8170 posts |
Does the direct link work |
jim lesurf (2082) 1438 posts |
Yes! :-) It gets me a zip of the app. Thanks for that. :-) All I have to do now is make sense of it. And I still recall seeing a page saying that you just need to change two specific toolsprites from 180dpi to 90dpi to force all the tools to scale up by x2 when rendered. But I can’t find that (expletives deleted) page again! I’ve tried a number of terms for searching on with a search engine.. no coconut. I’ll look at ToolMaker. BTW: Are PV’s pages frozen and untweakable to sort snags like the above? |
David Lamda (9487) 48 posts |
Is this post relevant? |
jim lesurf (2082) 1438 posts |
Yes! :-)) That’s where I saw the reference to just changing the dpi of two of the tool sprites! I’ll give it a try. Thanks. TBH PV’s TooMaker looks a tad complex to me. Good for a designer to create a new set of window tools, but a round-the-barn way to do what I need. |
jim lesurf (2082) 1438 posts |
OK, one tiny step forwards. If I use something like “The App we can’t call by its original name” to scale up cicon22 and sicon22 the result does, indeed, make the sliders, etc bigger. But the result is a mess because the other icons don’t get scaled, they get repeated. e.g. the slider bars turn into two parallel slider bars! Given how many icon sprites there are in the tools files this prompts the question: is there an app that can apply the same scaling to them all automagically? i.e. you give it the sprites file as input and it scales all the individual sprites by the same value? If not, this is a real PITA to do, one by one! Made more frusrating as I can recall in the long past that there was a set of window tool sprites which displayed with the tools x2 bigger than the norm – deliberately to aid those with poor vision. Which is the reason I’m trying to do as she re-starts to use her own (RO) box for the first time in years. |