1.2.4 - Most significant change: The Boxes have been reduced from three schemes to one. This means I’ve finally given in and admitted that the infamous red schemes are, not to put too fine a point on it, ‘bleurgh’. Also: Redesigned the Box logo (again), added resources for compatibility with Kaleidoscope 1.7.2 and, following discussion on the K mailing list about black and white support, followed Lloyd Wood’s suggestions, making major re-jiggings to the 1-bit resources (though they’re probably still wrong, ho ho).
1.2.3 - Major overhaul of all three schemes. Darkened and unified all shades of red, bringing the Box schemes closer to my original concept than those garish red things you’ve had to put up with until now.
1.2.2 - Never released. Deleted unnecessary ‘TMPL’ resources for all schemes, updated utility window grow boxes for compatibility with Kaleidoscope 1.7. Made a few cosmetic improvements to ‘cicn’ resources.
1.2.1 - Twiddled with the windoids, the corners of the pop-up menus, and about a gazillion other things, then named all the ‘cicn’ resources.
1.2 - Continued the battle against the wonky button resources, and deleted all the useless ‘Created by Color Scheme Convertor’ info from ‘cicn’ resources, which gets the file sizes down a bit.
1.1 - Oh God, sorry. Yes, I know - the buttons were screwy. Four lousy pixels and the whole scheme goes ape. Well, I’ve fixed it now, so there’s just the 999 other problems to go...
1.0 - What’s in the box? Not much, apparently.
Don’t you ever give up?
Apparently not. After the critical indifference that was Aardwolf, BouncyWare™ welcomes you to a new colour scheme for Kaleidoscope 1.5 (or later) that isn’t named after a South African rodent: Box. Box is the first scheme by BouncyWare™ to appear in living colour (i.e., red). For you historians out there, Box once came in three flavours: I, II and III. The only difference between these three versions was the design of the scroll bar and arrows, designed such that you could pick the one you preferred, then do a little dance of joy.
Box is so good that I want to send you my life savings.
Don’t. Box is free to everybody in the universe except Bill Gates. Put all your money into a pyramid selling scam instead*. If you are Bill Gates, the fee for using Box is $75,000. This fee does not include updates.
Is there anything else I should know?
Box will work in 16 colours, and in black and white, but it prefers to live in 256 or more colours. Oh, and it also prefers a cool room with concealed lighting and no plants.
My computer has just been eaten by a giraffe. Can I blame you in an unreasonable fashion?
No. BouncyWare™ can accept no responsibility for any ingestion of computer equipment by wild animals, domestic pets, business partners, teachers, significant others, lunatics at bus stops, or any other person or thing, animate or inanimate, because that would just be asking for trouble, and the courts are full of this sort of thing as it is.
Terms of usage
Box can be used in schools and universities, on oil rigs, in homes, aboard space ships, in submarines, under duvets, behind car parks, on other planets, up trees, and in supermarkets. It cannot be used in nuclear power plants, gold mines, dentists’ surgeries, or Microsoft’s headquarters.
Play List
Music from Sam Brown (whose latest album is called Box - hey, wait a minute!), Smoke City, No Doubt, and the little furry bananas who live in my head helped smooth the way for the development of this Colour Scheme.
Contact BouncyWare™
If you’ve got something to say about Box (apart from ‘it sucks!’) then send it to neil.green@netmatters.co.uk and it will magically appear before my very eyes. If you’re just looking for pointless waffle and nonsense, whizz over to http://users.netmatters.co.uk/neil.green/ and your wishes will come true.
* Don’t do this. The last time I made that suggestion was in Albania, and look what happened.
