OnSet 1.0 README - Friday, April 22, 1994



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OnSet will allow you to change your "power-on screen" picture.  You can change it to a number of preset ROM/system bitmaps or bitmaps that are stored in a special soup.  A few such custom pictures have been included with the OnSet archive.



Install OnSet just like you would any other package.



After downloading the package, just open your prefs roll and select "Power-On Screen" from the overview list.  Clicking on the icon will get you there too.  Select your picture with the arrows and click on the set button.  Whamo!  Your newton will now power-on with the picture you selected.



To try out the PICT packages, first install OnSet.  Then download one or more of the packages in the Sample PICTs folder to your newton.  (These packages will store their contents in a special soup and then remove themselves.)  Open the OnSet roll item and flip through the pictures that you just downloaded.  Notice how the pictures that you downloaded can be deleted with OnSet's delete button.  (Any pictures that show no delete button can't be deleted because they are part of the ROM or system software.)  Because these pictures are stored in a soup in the internal store, they can also be deleted with soup utilities like StewPot and such.



If you have NTK you can make your own "PICT packages" with the source included in the "Picture Downloader" folder.  Make sure to change the PICTSym constant in the Project Data file! 



Note that the REBOOT screen will NOT show this picture.  This screen is defined at a lower level than the power-on screen; a level that Apple currently doesn't want to let us developers mess with.  As a result I can't do anything about the reboot screen right now.



Have fun!