DOpus5 gripes

This kind of thing really belongs in a DOpus forum, but I can't find one that has been touched in the last year and a half.

I see on Epsilon's blog on the subject that he has been able to get a screen-size picture for wallpaper. But it's not clear (to me) how he did it.

I would be very happy with a background screen that looked like my Workbench screen, but what I get is an ugly tiled background made of small versions of that. I had big hopes of finding out how to fix it in the manual, Chapter 7, The Environment Editor, Display Mode or Display Options, but no soap. I am seriously considering using DOpus as a WB replacement, but not if it is going to look like that!

An minor apparent glitch: if I'm going to be away from the computer for a while, I Shift^F2 to blank the screen. But if DOpus is running on its own screen, behind Workbench, the monitor only stays blanked for a few seconds, so I need to quit DOpus first. At least it reloads very quickly when I come back.

Open environment settings/backgrounds, click the ? gadget after the filename of the image you want to change and select display/stretch picture.

Try iconifying Dopus instead of quitting.

@Severin

Whee! So many things one can do if only one knows how.

I used a backdrop that was already the right size, instead of stretching. And then I found out that I had never changed the background when I switched to a wide-screen monitor. Apparently OS4 made the adjustment for me. I've changed it now and it's slightly different, with Boing ball right above the dockies instead of middle of screen. But maybe I'll start experimenting with other backdrops before it's too late. I suspect I could design my own (.png or .jpg doesn't matter?).

You won't be surprised to learn that Hiding DOpus worked, and I can blank the monitor with Shift^F2. But now I wonder: what would I do if I go DOpus whole hog? Oh, surprise! Shift^F2 just worked from there, while WB was still running in the background!

Thanks. No doubt I'll be back...

@kilaueabart

Try a program by Peter Gordon on OS4depot called proppercropper, it loads an image and lest you crop and scale to your current workbench size. very easy..

run it
Ramiga-o - open a file
Drag the box around to set what you want
Ramiga-s - scale and save the picture.
Ramiga-q to quit.