LC475 OS-713 Changing the font for ALIASES with ResEdit

[dr.zeissler]

Hello retro-friends,

I really love my LC-475

It is a really cool and small machine. I currently use OS-7.1.3 and I am really satisfied with this.
What a dislike is the "cursive" font of Aliases. I would like to change the font of Aliases to "regular".

Any idea where apple did the definition of the font-characters of aliases?

Thx
Doc

 

[ClassicHasClass]

I rather like the italics, personally, but this thread should do what you want.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2417264?start=0&tstart=0

 

[dr.zeissler]

Thx! I made a copy and edited it and changed it with the original and made a reboot, but it does not work.
I made a photo of what I did. For the photo I made another copy of it so I can display it with ResEdit.

What do you think?

 

[dr.zeissler]

https://web.archive.org/web/2005021...sexcellence.com/mods_classic/10-23-1998.shtml

The pictures are not archived, but I think I did the wrong thing I'll have to read it again...

 

[ClassicHasClass]

I checked this on my own 7.1 system and there are two problems: first, it apparently uses a non-standard ResEdit template, but more importantly, the 'fvl8' resource doesn't appear to exist in 7.1. Sorry.

(It does exist on my OS 8 and OS 9 systems, but that obviously doesn't help you here.)

 

[dr.zeissler]

hm, the "fvl8" is a container. As far as I understand that you only need the "content" of the "fvl8" to copy it in the "Finder Preferences" and after that you could edit them in the "Finder Preferences".
The "fvl8"template was downloadable at wayback.

Set The Font Style Of An Alias by Michael Coyle, 10-23-1998

Using a ResEdit template created by Jeremiah Morris, you can easily set the text style of the font used in an alias' name.
After performing this edit, you may want to view the previous edit to remove the word alias from the alias' name.

Intructions to install the template:
- After downloading the template, open the ResEdit preferences file in ResEdit (you can find it in the System Folder > Preferences). Open the new template file in ResEdit and select all the resources with Command-A.
- Paste these resources into the ResEdit Preferences file with Command-C. You may get a dialog asking how to handle duplicate ID numbers - select the Unique button.
- Save the preferences and quit ResEdit. The next time you launch the program, the template will be ready to use!

Removing the italic from the alias name:
You can find the Finder Preferences in the System Folder > Preferences folder.
Open a copy of them with ResEdit , then open the fvl8 resource with a double-click.

Thanks to the template, you can simply enter the number for the new style of text in the highlighted box.
Font Style Codes:
0 - plain text
1 - bold
2 - italic
4 - underline
8 - outline
16 - shadow
32 - condensed
64 - extended

Save your work and quit ResEdit. Replace the old preference file with the new one and Restart your computer. Your alias will now have the new font style!

 

[dr.zeissler]

Hm, I think you are right. The way they did it under OS 8/9 does not work for OS7...