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In a chat session with Greg Landweber, Arlo Rose and the Kaleidoscope Evangelist Eric Reid which I attended at gui junky's Hotline server tonight, Greg made some remarks about the new scheme format in Kaleidoscope 2.0.
Schemes for Kaleidoscope 2.0 will be easier to make. There is an initial learning curve, but once you have figured out the new resources, it is quite easy. It gives you a lot of flexibility, but for the best results, you should design the windows in a graphics program, not the ResEdit editor. Basically, you paste in a complete image of a window and then specify which parts correspond to what (close boxes, etc.) and what needs to be stretched. Widgets (close, zoom and windowshade boxes) and window titles can be placed anywhere on the window border, on the top, bottom, or even the sides. The window still needs to be built on a rectangular content region. You cannot have bits of the frame extending inside the window, but you can do most anything you want on the outside of the window.
Each scheme can specify its Finder background colors, as well as separate colors for list views, sort columns, and the divider line in the Finder. You can also set the text color for list views, icon views, and the desktop. Kaleidoscope 2.0 also supports replacement arrow cursors.
Greg will provide a ResEdit patch which will allow you to create cicn resources of any size you want. ResEdit can get confused with extremely large icons, though. Schemes created for Kaleidoscope 1.5 or later will still work with Kaleidoscope 2.0 and there will be no need to convert them to the new scheme format.
Kaleidoscope 2.0 will not include options to add sounds to system events like menu selections etc., but Greg said he had considered adding hooks for other programs to do that, and that he had been working with someone who wanted to release a utility which would add sounds to system events.
Detailed documentation on the new scheme format will be included with the public beta release of Kaleidoscope 2.0.
Archie McPhee & Co., Outfitters of Popular Culture, is sponsoring a scheme contest. Everyone who enters wins a free pair of Nerd Specs, and top prize is a Deluxe Nerd Stash full of cool computer-related toys.
Entry deadline is June 5. Winners will be announced approx June 15th. Official rules and instructions are on the McPhee website.
David Catmull updated his icon editor, Icon Machine, to version 1.3.2.
This version Fixes a crash that happened when undoing the Delete Member command. It also fixes a bug introduced in 1.3.1 where the Delete Member command was enabled for the large B&W member. The dropper cursor resource is now non-purgeable, which should fix the problem of the cursor turning to garbage.
-> More Info | Download Icon Machine 1.3.2
MacKiDo has an excellent article about the use of color in a user interface. This article shows what to do and what not do do when creating graphical user interfaces. The article discusses aspects such as what the interface will look like for people who are color blind, compares how color is used in MacOS and Windows '95, and explains the value of contrast among the colors used on the screen.
USeful reading if you are concerned about the use of color in your color scheme.
Brad Matter's huge list of all the icons you would ever want to include in your color schemes has been updated to fix some minor errors. The list (which is divided into several pages) contains information about whether the icons patch with macOS 8 or system 7.x in addition to comments and images of all the icons.
This list aims at telling you whether the icons are worth adding and is not just a long list of resource names and IDs. If you are making a scheme with folders and other icons, don't release it until you have consulted the Kaleidoscope Companion.
As mentioned in the Kaleidoscope News, Scheme Central is now reopened, and Jacob Kaplan is encouraging schemers to subit their schemes to schemecentral@iname.com for inclusion at Scheme Central. Remember to include your scheme's web page (if it has one), your home page (if you have one), and a description of your scheme that will appear on the page where your scheme is featured.
In addition, Scheme Central also offers free advertising for scheme authors' web pages. This can be done by creating a 460x60 pixel image, and sending it to schemecentral@iname.com along with a link to the scheme page.
Frank Turk has just started an Batman scheme contest. Entries must be submitted before April 30th to centuri0n@earthlink.net. Entries will be posted on the official batman controversy page, for everybody to vote on their favourite after May 1. Winners will be posted on May 8.
Charlie Austin at GeekCo has created another JavaScript Scheme Viewer. This new viewer is a bit simpler than the earlier one, and like the viewer created by Ric Zito, it changes the image when you move the mouse over a link. What's special with this viewer, is that the images don't need to preload, and you don't need to provide alternate non JavaScript links or mess with lots of code. The source scripts are available for download along from the GeekCo web site .
-> More Info | Download the EZ Scheme Viewer
David Catmull has released version 1.3.1 of his icon editor, Icon Machine.
This version fixes a problem with incoming drag flavors marked "don't save", the Edit Icon plugin finally works correctly when Icon Machine is not on the startup drive and the translucent drag image for small icons draws correctly. Version 1.3, which was released a while ago, added keyboard shortcuts for tools and a Show Gridlines command, in addition to som bug fixes.
-> More Info | Download Icon Machine 1.3.1
Brad Matter has put together a list of all the icons you can include in your schemes to patch the icons in the Finder. His list contains information about whether they patch with macOS 8 or system 7.x in addition to images of all the icons you could possibly want to add to your schemes.
This list aims at telling you whether the icons are worth adding and is not just a long list of resource names and IDs. This list is not yet complete, and there are still some issues which Brad Matter is looking into, but all the basic information neede to find out what icons to include in your schemes is available.
Patrick Bores has just announced the Useless Scheme Contest. The contest will run until the end of April, 1998 and is great for those of you who think your scheme is more useless than the next person's scheme. You may not submit Be schemes to this contest, as Patrick believes that no Be scheme is useless. (Does this have anything to do with one of the utilities he is offering as a prize to the winning scheme?)
As an example of a useless scheme, Patrick Bores has made his scheme Zoom Box available for download. Zoom Box is a useless scheme composed of mostly zoom box icons.
The creator of the most useless scheme will win the contest and receive a personalized copy of BeEdit v1.5.1 and WebColor v2.2. His or her scheme will also be featyred at Patricks web page and announced at the Kaleidoscope Scheme List.
-> More Info | Download an example of a useless scheme: Zoom Box
The Kaleidoscope WebRing, which was started by Jacob Kaplan a few weeks ago is suffering from some problems. Since his web site, SchemeCentral, has now been removed, there is no description available on how to subscribe to the webring. The graphics used for navigating between the pages in the webring were also stored at SchemeCentral and are also gone. Several of the members of the webring have now removed the HTML code from their webpage, causing the ring to be broken. In a comment, Jacob Kaplan said that the Kaleidoscope Webring was not dead. He still had to figure out the image problem before new members could be added.
The Appearance test application which we previously emntioned was not the complete application. Quentin Hill, one of the members of the scheme mailing list, recently reported that he had found the complete Appearance application created by Ed Voas. The sample application which comes with the Appearance Development Kit This one has examples of every Appearance control there is and is very useful for testing things like bevel buttons in your color schemes.
The download package is 4.4 Mb (or about 7 Mb uncompressed), but it is definitely worth downloading. It also comes with Appearance version 1.0.2, and information on how to make the Appearance Manager work with systems, starting at System 7.1.
Jacob Kaplan at SchemeCentral has started a Kaleidoscope WebRing. A webring is a collection of related sites that each has a piece of HTML code at the bottom that puts a navigational bar at the bottom of their pages. People can then easily browse through sites about their favorite subject; Kaleidoscope in this situation.
If you have a page where you present your Kaleidoscope schemes or utilities, or just a page with general information about Kaleidoscope. you can join this webring by filling out a form at SchemeCentral. Joining the WebRing could increase the number of hits to your webpage.
The SchemeChecker stack started reported that a new version should have been available about a week ago. The new version is now finally released, and can be downloaded from SchemeChecker's info page.
With the help of Giovanni Sarbia, who wrote some new code for fixing misset bits, SchemeChecker now fixes error much faster than earlier versions. This version also allows you to customize the required resource set if you want to check if you have included all the bevel button resources or see what icon resources you can add to your scheme to make it support the icons from the Appearance Manager. This new option is accessed by option-clicking any of the check buttons.
If you are watching the SchemeChecker info page through PageWtach, you may have received a lot of unnecessary reports. A form has now been added to the info page to help you unsubscribe from PageWatch and stop the reports. Version 1.3 of SchemeChecker will offer version checking over an internet connection, which will work much better than PageWatch.
-> More Info | Download SchemeChecker 1.1.1
A sample application (with source code) which shows the various elements of the Appearance Manager is available for download. This application has a CDEF tester where you, among other things, can display an indeterminate progress bar which will run forever. This application also clears up some of the confusion about bevel buttons. This application will only run on macs with macOS 8 or the Appearance extension installed.
The Interfaces Mailing List has returned to the Coollist server where it started last year. Ed Deans has moved the current subscribers to a new server, so there's no need to resubscribe. The intefaces Mailing List is for GUI enthusiasts like Kaleidoscope scheme developers and people interested in Niji, a new alternative to Kaleidoscope.
The list's primary goal is to offer a place for interface enthusiasts to discuss Niji, "K to Niji" scheme conversion, Kaleidoscope, even Apple's Appearance Manager amongst other things like "What makes an interface's appearance good?"
Edward Voas has written a long article in MacTech magazine about the new Appearance Manager which is used in macOS 8. This article explains how the different parts of the Appearance Manager works, like bevel buttons, sliders etc. It doesn't actually help you design your Kaleidoscope color schemes, but if you are very interested in the Appearance Manager, you may want to have a look at it.
The article also describes several new controls which Kaleidoscope currently doesn't patch, like placards and tab controls.
David Catmull has released a minor update of his icon editor, Icon Machine.
Icon Machine 1.2.1 fixes a crashing bug related to the Other Size dialog and contextual menus. Return and Enter are interpreted correctly in the Other Size dialog, and the OK button is outlined.
-> More Info | Download Icon Machine 1.2.1
Just a small reminder for all the schemers out there: Apple Wizards, a Mac OS and Apple e-zine is having a Kaleidoscope scheme contest contest. The deadline for submissions to this contest is March 31.
The rules in this contest are very simple. Simply design at least one scheme that best reflects the style of Apple Wizards e-zine. For more information about Apple Wizards, look around the web site and download past and present issues of the e-zine. Contest entries should be emailed to editors@applewizards.net. The winning schemes will be showcased in the Apple Wizards web site as well as the following issue of Apple Wizards.
Sven Berg Ryen's has updated SchemeChecker to version 1.1.1. This version fixes a small bug which caused the active scheme to appear in the list of schemes. The resource lists have been slightly modified to include some rarely used resources which were missing.
-> More Info | Download SchemeChecker 1.1.1
David Catmull has updated his icon editor Icon Machine to version 1.2. IconMachine is quite a useful tool if you plan to create custom folder icons for your scheme. Icon Machine's main features includes integrated mask editing, extensive Drag and Drop support, a reorganized color palette, additive & subtractive selections and a Contextual Menu Plug-In.
Version 1.2 handles icon previews better, also, short icons (like hard disks, clippings, and System 7 style folders) now have the correct mask when dragged from the member selector to the editing area. Some problems still exist in this version. There is a small memory leak which may cause problems after prolonged use, and the mask sometimes gets lost on 68k machines with a monitor set to thousands of colors.
-> More Info | Download Icon Machine 1.2
Ric Zito has created two new Scheme Previewers based on JavaScript.
One of the previewers changes images when the mouse rolls over a button, while the other one changes them upon clicking.
Both the scripts are grouped in one folder on two HTML pages containing example images and buttons. They are highly customizable and versatile - it's the way you make your images that defines their appearance.
Ric Zito also has a lot of other JavaScripts available for download.
-> More Info | Download the Previewers and test pages
Ed Deans has created a webpage which discusses the various inactive popup folder design options available.
Examples of the resources used, and animated images along with detailed descriptions will shed some light on the issues. There are also illustrations of the pop-up window cicns involved.
Charlie Austin at GeekCo has created a JavaScript Scheme Viewer. The source scripts are available for download along with instructions on how to add a scheme Viewer to your own webpage .
Jim Herzman, the Railroad Schemer, has already added a Scheme Viewer to his webpage.
-> More Info | Download the Scheme Viewer
The final version of Sven Berg Ryen's SchemeChecker 1.1 is now available. This version fixes the bug which caused problems in the two last beta versions.
A lot of changes and improvements have been made since SchemeChecker 1.0.2, including full support for the new Kaleidoscope 1.8 resources and the resource set in BeBox schemes. SchemeChecker now supports for the way Kaleidoscope 1.8 handles aliases of the scheme folder and color scheme files, and some bugs have been fixed.
-> More Info | Download SchemeChecker 1.1
After releasing three fun "hacks", Jim Herzman has now released a serious icon hack at his CyberWorld of Trains website.
This fourth hack, the "Icon Sets - Version 1.0.0 Hack # 4", is a series of Icons sets that will be useful to both the Kaleidoscope and Niji Designers. Three icon sets are currently available: One small set of 20 basic System 7 and OS 8 Icons, a medium set of 50 icons and a large set including as much as 80 icons. Also, a set of 50 function-specific "icon glyphs" are included in the icon hack.
-> More Info | Download Jim's Icon Sets 1.0
Patrick Bores has just posted an update of his utility BeEdit, which lets you create schemes with "BeBox-look", while not being limited to use the yellow and gray colors of the original BeBox WDEF!
Only one thing has changed since version 1.5. The scheme convert confirmation dialog now actually tells you which scheme it's going to convert.
-> More Info | Download BEEdit 1.5.1
Slider Helper, the accent color clut editor by Sven Berg Ryen, has been updated to v 1.0b3.
Slider Helper 1.0b3 adds a preview of the text field focus ring, and colors should display at the selected bit depth instead of just using 8 bit (256 colors). An option to use the window colors from the scheme being edited in the stack window was also added, as well as some minor bug fixes.
-> More Info | Download Slider Helper 1.0b3
David Catmull has updated his icon editor Icon Machine to version 1.1. IconMachine is quite a useful tool if you plan to create custom folder icons for your scheme. Icon Machine's main features includes integrated mask editing, extensive Drag and Drop support, a reorganized color palette, additive & subtractive selections and a Contextual Menu Plug-In.
Version 1.0.1 comes with a handful of new features, like Mac OS 8 contextual menus in all windows, a Window menu, which under Mac OS 8 displays each window's icon. Also, tear-off floating palettes has been added, and the pattern selector uses the foreground and background colors to display patterns. The tools have been improved, and some bugs have been fixed.
-> More Info | Download Icon Machine 1.1
The demo of Eudora Pro 4.0 includes the Appearance Manager 1.0.2, which will install and run even on System 7.1 Macs. Installing this may help creating macOS 8 compatible schemes if your mac is are still running system 7.x.
Some problems with the control panel has been reported when used on macs running system 7.1, as well as some problems with the ghost thumbs. It does, however, run fine on macs with system 7.5.
-> More Info | Download Eudora Pro 4.0 demo
Apple Wizards, a Mac OS and Apple e-zine has started a new Kaleidoscope contest.
The rules in this contest are very simple. Simply design at least one scheme that best reflects the style of Apple Wizards e-zine. For more information about Apple Wizards, look around the web site and download past and present issues of the e-zine. The contest ends on 31 March 1998 and all schemes should be emailed to editors@applewizards.net. The winning schemes will be showcased in the Apple Wizards web site as well as the following issue of Apple Wizards.
The prizes up for grabs will be a worthy addition to any scheme designer's toolbox. The first-place winner will receive Enhance, the award winning painting/image editor from Microfrontier. In addition, both the first-place and second-place winners will get one copy each of the following: Icon Machine by David Catmull, Sleeper by St. Clair Software, Window Monkey by Tiger Technologies, Color Picker Pro by Rootworks, and Desktop Consoles (Volumes 1 and 2) and Scrollites by Blue Sky Heart Graphics. Five third-place winners will receive the latest version of the Kaleidoscope CD (compiled by John Brochu of SiteLink) which contains hundreds of schemes as well as Kaleidoscope itself.
James Leduc has updated his Kaleidoscope Scheme Editing Primer. The Kaleidoscope Scheme Editing Primer is an attempt to provide the folks who desire to make their own Kaleidoscope Schemes, yet have essentially zero experience with resource editing, with a tool that will be as helpful as possible in the creation of the Kaleidoscope Color Schemes they desire. This primer is 95 pages of information in Adobe's Portable Document Format (pdf) and requires Abode Acrobat Reader to read and print.The information in A Kaleidoscope Scheme Editing Primer is limited to the current release of Kaleidoscope (version 1.8).
-> More Info | Download Kaleidoscope Scheme Editor Primer
Patrick Bores has just posted a major upgrade to BeEdit, an utility which lets you create schemes with "BeBox-look", while not being limited to use the yellow and gray colors of the original BeBox WDEF!
Version 1.5 has a multiple window interface, automatic scheme conversion, and more. BeEdit is still shareware ($10) and registration is now done through Kagi Shareware. Version 1.5 is what was previously distributed as the "Deluxe" version, plus a few more enhancements.
-> More Info | Download BEEdit 1.5
During the holidays the service that was hosting the Interfaces Mailing List disappeared without warning. Ed Deans has now started a new mailing list on a much faster server. The intefaces Mailing List is for GUI enthusiasts like Kaleidoscope scheme developers and people interested in Niji, a new alternative to Kaleidoscope.
The list's primary goal is to offer a place for interface enthusiasts to discuss Niji, "K to Niji" scheme conversion, Kaleidoscope, even Apple's Appearance Manager amongst other things like "What makes an interface's appearance good?"
Sven Berg Ryen, the author of the SchemeChecker, has released yet another scheme utility, Slider Helper. Slider Helper lets you edit the new accent color clut, which was added in Kaleidoscope 1.8. Slider Helper features previews of the sliders, and is also Kaleidoscope-savvy.
Slider Helper 1.0b2 fixed a small bug which could prevent the user from saving the clut resource to a scheme if certain colors were used. Also added was the ability to modify the colors by clicking any of the pixels of the previews.
-> More Info | Download Slider Helper 1.0b2
Neil Green has created a page which shows how to create the macOS 8 bevel buttons which are now supported by Kaleidoscope 1.8. It's very basic, but it does make a few thing clearer, especially for those of you who doesn't have macOS 8.
Sven Berg Ryen has released an update to his SchemeChecker. Version 1.1b3 supports the complete resource set of Kaleidoscope 1.8 and is also compatible with the way Kaleidoscope 1.8 handles aliases for the scheme folder and color scheme files. Version 1.1b1 added support for BeBox schemes.
Remember to check your schemes with SchemeChecker before releasing them!
-> More Info | Download SchemeChecker 1.1b3
Julian Harris has created a guide which explains how to create excellent schemes for everyday use. The guide was created to provide a few guidelines for designers with little or no interface design experience.
Adding support for Kaleidoscope 1.8 by creating resources for the MacOS 8 popup windows which Kaleidoscope now patches is a bit difficult if you don't have macOS 8. To make creating these resources a bit easier, Neil Green has created a page which displays screenshots of the macOS 8 popup windows. It also shows which resources are being used to draw the borders and the tab of popup windows.
Ed Deans has started a new "interface" mailing list for the discussion of Niji in an attempt to get the Niji discussion out of the Official Kaleidoscope mailing list. The list's primary goal is to offer a place for interface enthusiasts to discuss Niji, how to convert Kaleisoscope schemes to Niji appearances, even Apple Appearance Manager and other things like what makes a good design.
For those of you who don't feel like going trough the whole clut in K 1.8 to figure out which colors go where on the MacOS 8 slider, Mihai Parparita has created a slider editing guide. It describes where the colors from the new clut is being used, and shows a detailed picture of a slider. Please note that the clut is also used for the selected slider. If you create a clut which looks good with the normal state of the slider, you'll end up an ugly down state, and a potentially unusable color for the focus ring.
The sliders will be made into a cicn resources in a future version of Kaleidoscope, according to Arlo Rose.
David Catmull has updated his icon editor Icon Machine to version 1.0.1. IconMachine is quite a useful tool if you plan to create custom folder icons for your scheme. Icon Machine's main fetures includes integrated mask editing, extensive Drag and Drop support, a reorganized color palette, additive & subtractive selections and a Contextual Menu Plug-In.
Version 1.0.1 fixes a crash in the polygon tool, a problem with the pencil's auto-erase in 16-color icons, and a few other bugs.
-> More Info | Download Icon Machine 1.0.1
If you find that the resource menus in Designer's Studio are too long, and cluttered, you might want to try Brad Matter's D'Studio Menu Patch. Menu items have been renamed, to put the more generic parts of names first and the more specific last. Divider lines have been added, and some items have been re-ordered.
The patch also fixes two bugs in Designer's Studio, one where a menu item brought up the wrong icon (the File Server menu item was bringing up the Extensions folder), and another where the Extensions folder was missing.
Version 1.2 of the D'Studio Menu Patch fixes a problem which could cause crashes when selecting some of the resources from the menu. It also fixes some spelling errors,makes naming of resources a bit more consistent, and a few more items have been rearranged or placed in groups to make the menus easier to use.
-> More Info | Download D'Studio Menu Patch
The question about which folder resources you can add to your schemes in order to provide support for the new icons introduced in macOS 8, has been heavily discussed at the Kaleidoscope mailing list. Not many are aware of this, but it is possible to install the Appearance Manager in system 7. Installing the Appearance Manager when running system 7 will not answer the question on which icons are being used in macOS 8, as no additional folder icons seems to be patched. However, you may open the Appearance Extension in ResEdit and take a look at the icons to get an idea of how they look.
The Appearance Manager 1.0 comes bundled with the beta release of Eudora Pro 4.0, and is automatically installed in your system folder when you install Eudora Pro, regardless of which system version you are using. The Appearance Manager doesn't seem to cause any conflicts when running on system 7.5.
-> More Info | Download Eudora Pro 4.0 beta
Akamai Design's popular WYSIWYG Kaleidoscope Color Scheme editor, Designer's Studio has been updated to version 1.1. The new version solves a lot of the bugs which prevously were reported by users of D'Studio 1.0. Also, a few new features have been added to make scheme designing even easier.
The most noticeable and welcome feature for experienced and novice users alike is the additon of custom color palettes. You can define up to 16 colors per palette, with an unlimited number of palettes. In addition to speeding the designer's work, these palettes will help insure consistency of color throughout a scheme. This updated version of DS also sports a very thorough implementation of Balloon Help. Every control, menu and dialog, now have Balloons that fully explain the function of each item, including 'hidden' features such as modifier key combinations, and helpful hints.
-> More Info | Several download options
Sven Berg Ryen has released an update to his SchemeChecker.
Since the release of BeEdit, there has been a significant increase in the number of BeBox schemes available. Previously, SchemeChecker didn't support schemes with custom WDEFs and displayed errors in BeBox schemes. With this release, SchemeChecker is capable of checking BeBox schemes correctly.
-> More Info | Download SchemeChecker 1.1b1
David Catmull has just released Icon Machine 1.0. It's a pretty good icon
editor, and it is quite a useful tool if you plan to create custom folder icons for your scheme.
Main fetures includes
-> More Info | Download Icon Machine 1.0
BeEdit by Patrick Bores lets you edit the colors of the BeBox windows, allowing you to create schemes with "BeBox-look", while not being limited to use the yellow and gray colors of the original BeBox WDEF!
BeEdit is shareware ($ 10). When you have registered, you'll recieve BeEdit Deluxe, which includes a multiple window interface, easy color
controls, and automatic scheme conversion.
-> More Info | Download BeEdit
Even though Akamai Design's recently released Designer's Studio has only been available for a week, quite a lot of bugs have been reported at the Color Scheme Mailing List. Still, there is no sign of any page discussing the bugs and suggesting possible workarounds at D'Studio's webpage. Dorian Weisel has posted a message to the Mailing List where he says: "We [Akamai Design] are paying attention and working considerably more than overtime to bring all this together." We should look forward to the release of D'Studio 1.1, he says, but another list member pointed out that Akamai Design should consider a version 1.0.1 before they got too worried about version 1.1.
Designer's Studio, from Akamai Design, is the world's first WYSIWYG Kaleidoscope Color Scheme editor.
Also included in the Designer's Studio Package is the Kaleidoscope Color
Scheme Switching Control Strip Module (SSCSM) (which let's you switch the active color scheme from your Control Strip), Brian Hagler's Kaleidoscope Scheme Guide (a comprehensive and easy to use guide to scheme making),and a "Classic Pack" of color schemes created by the DS development and beta testing teams.
Designer's Studio is being distributed as shareware with a trial period of 15 days. A single User License is $20.00 US.
-> More Info | Several download options
Sven Berg Ryen has just released an update to SchemeChecker.
SchemeChecker is a HyperCard stack which helps you make sure your color schemes are bug free, by checking for errors like:
-> More Info | Download SchemeChecker 1.0.2
Today, Leo Breebart posted the last message to his Kaleidoscope Mailing List, sending his thanks to everyone who has contributed in whatever way to the success of the old list. Since this list started on Jan 7th, as much as 2657 messages have been posted, which gives an average of almost ten messages per day. This isn't bad for a list dedicated to technical discussions concerning one rather frivolous piece of interface software on a minority platform.
The first official Kaleidoscope Color Scheme Competition has begun! Enter your scheme (only one scheme allowed per person) to contest@kaleidoscope.net before 11:00 PM (CST) on October 31, 1997, and you may be the lucky winner of a grand prize of over $1000 worth of cash and software, as well as the opportunity to work with the Kaleidoscope team on a scheme to be bundled with Kaleidoscope.
Be sure to read the rules thoroughly before making your submission. Any questions about the contest should be directed towards Eric Reid (Kaleidoscope Evangelist).
A "Beginner's Guide to Creating Kaleidoscope Color Schemes", written by Jim Stanley can now be found at DOWNLOAD.COM.
Leo Breebart, the maintainer of the current Kaleidoscope mailing list, has recently announced that he will no longer be able to run this list. The list is to go off air in mid-October.
Eric Reid at the Kaleidoscope Scheme Archive has now created a new Kaleidoscope mailing list for scheme authors. This list is not intended as a forum to provide feedback to the Kaleidoscope team. Bug reports, suggestions, and comments should be sent directly to the Kaleidoscope team at support@kaleidoscope.net
Subscribing to the Kaleidoscope Scheme List
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