• Added some Kaleidoscope 1.7 specific features to Mercury and Kronos. Both of those schemes now have menubar patterns built-in. No need for Menubar Pattern anymore.
• Fixed a few bit attributes that I missed with the 1.5 update.
• Went back to my old scroll thumbs for Mondrian and Lake Road! I always liked the older scroll thumbs better (especially the Mondrian scroll thumb) but they looked *really* ugly with SmartScroll which is why I made the change in version 1.5. So, now you have a choice. The original scroll thumbs are back and a patcher is included for those who SmartScroll friendly scroll thumbs for Lake Road and Mondrian.
• Mondrian now has a flat grey progress bar. This is much more in keeping with the overall style of Mondrian.
• Mondrian now has solid black divider lines in the menus. This is much more in keeping with the overall style of Mondrian.
• Built and rendered a new high-resolution version of my desktop grid picture for all of you luck people with 17" or bigger monitors! Cool! The included jpeg is 832x624 and higher resolution versions are available upon request.
• Other miscellaneous tweeks including new B&W scroll arrows for Lake Road, bigger scroll thumbs for Mercury, etc.
version 1.5 - April 2, 1997
• All schemes were redesigned to work with Kaleidoscope 1.5
• All scroll thumbs are now designed to work well with SmartScroll.
• Lake Road was redesigned to work in 256 colors.
• The silver folders patch is now provided as a plug-in for Chris' Aaron/Kaleidoscope patcher.
• Numerous tweeks and redsigned elements in all scheme to take advantage of the more flexible color scheme format of Kaleidoscope 1.5
• Added a desktop pattern for Kronos.
version 1.3.2 - Dec. 14, 1996
• The silver folders patch should now work on any version of the Kaleidoscope control panel.
• Tweeked the pressed checkbox icon of Kronos. The blue gradient looks nicer now.
• The disabled windows, headers and scrolls of Mercury are now darker to match the color of active windows, headers and scrolls.
• The silver folders patch now adds small silver folders to open/save dialog box pop-up menus.
version 1.3.1 - Dec. 7, 1996
• Fixed a problem that a few people were having with applications quitting with type 1 and type 25 errors.
• Added black and white versions of many icm resources. Many of them were old black and white icm's that did not correspond to the mask I used for my icm8 and icm4 resources.
• The silver folders are now provided as an optional patch for the control panel.
version 1.3 - Nov. 17, 1996
• Added a three new color schemes, Lake Road, Mercury and Mondrian.
• Added the Mondrian Desktop pattern.
• All color schemes now have a "vanity plate". That's what I call the PICT that shows up in the control panel whenever you select one of my color schemes.
• Made a new set of silver folder icons and incorporated them into the color schemes themselves. There's no need to use Resedit for anything.
• Removed the "Hi-Tech" desktop pattern since I was not the original author of this pattern.
• Renamed "Total Eclipse" to "Kronos". Much cooler name don't you think?
• Removed the "Partial Eclipse" color scheme since it was essentially identical to the "Total Eclipse" color scheme. I got the impression from people's email that most people preferred the "Total Eclipse" scheme over the "Partial Eclipse" scheme anyway.
• Floating Windoids in the "Kronos/Total Eclipse" color scheme now have a dark blue hilight like regular Finder windows and document windows.
version 1.2 - Oct. 10, 1996
• Changed the name from "Dave's Eclipse Patches" to "Dave's Kaleidoscope Extras". The new name is a bit longer but *much* more descriptive.
• The color schemes are now provided as actual color scheme files. There's no need to mess around with Resedit now to create them. This saves you a bit of hassle. My schemes are based on Eclipse, but I changed a good 80% of the resources in there. The Kaleidoscope patches are still patches that you must apply yourself with Resedit.
• Total Eclipse radio buttons and check boxes now turn 'hi-tech blue' when clicked (instead of red) in order to match the colors used in this theme for depressed normal buttons.
• Total Eclipse now has floating windoid title bar buttons (zoom box, close box, windowshade widget) that match the style of the buttons I made for regular window title bars.
• Partial Eclipse radio buttons and check boxes are now light grey like Aaron to match the colors used in this theme for normal buttons.
• Partial Eclipse now has floating windoid title bar buttons (zoom box, close box, windowshade widget) that match the style of the buttons I made for regular window title bars.
• Fixed the 4 bit icons resources for the title bar buttons and scroll arrows. The original icons were only done in 8 bit and the 4 bit icons were kind of messy. Title bar buttons should look much better in 16 color mode now. However, there are still problems with window colors and scroll thumb colors. This has to do with the way the color scheme files work and there is currently nothing I can do about it other redesigning the problematic elements with the 16 color palette only (or very close to it). But that would look *really* ugly.
• Redesigned the the 'Hi-Tech' trash can icons to better match the silver folder icons. It looks more like brushed aluminium now and less like black Rubbermaid.
version 1.1 - Not released
• Deleted one of the menubar patterns. It had a blue highlight that was not showing up. With Aaron or Kaleidoscope installed, MenuBar Pattern cannot change the color of the outermost menubar pixels. The Aaron or Kaleidoscope menubar colors take over for those outer rows of pixels.
• Added two new menubar patterns, a concave silver one, and a convex black one with a top bevel.
• edited the titlebar buttons so that they now change shape when clicked instead of just turning black. cool!
• fixed the Kaleidoscope resources file. It had a number of unnecessary small icon resources in it which caused an error when attempting to paste it into Kaleidoscope. Sorry about that. This was a left over from my early development of the 'Hi-Tech' hack on Aaron. Aaron has those extra icons but in Kaleidoscope the extra icons are in the color scheme files only and not the control panel. opps!
version 1.0 - Sept. 26, 1996
• released as "Dave's Eclipse Patches" on September 26, 1996
