[Aaron]
Aaron version 1.1.1, August 9, 1995
Copyright (c) 1991 - 1995 Gregory D. Landweber and ISYS Development Corp., ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Brought to you by the authors of Greg's Buttons, Greg's Browser, and DoubleScroll.

Aaron is a small extension that transforms your Mac's user experience to resemble the Copland 3-D style as shown in recent issues of MacWeek, MacUser, and MacWorld magazines. To use it, just drop it in your Extensions folder, or drop it on your System (MacOS) folder and let the Finder put it where it belongs. When you restart, you will see the changes listed below. To temporarily disable Aaron, hold down the mouse button while it loads at startup.

List of Features

  • Substitutes Espi Sans Bold 10 for Chicago 12 as the system font.

    [Screenshot: Window]

  • The menu bar and menus use a light gray background and a dark blue highlight color. In addition, the menu bar takes on a subtle 3D effect.

  • Replaces the standard push buttons, check boxes, and radio buttons with Copland-style 3D shaded ones.

  • The header information in Finder windows (the # items... and Name, Size, Kind,... lines at the top of the window) is drawn using a gray background and a subtle 3D effect.

  • Automatically installs 3D Copland-style folder icons. There are many versions of these icons floating around in cyberspace. The ones included with Aaron have been tweaked to match the various Copland screen shots as closely as possible. Aaron does not change your system file, so your icons will revert to normal if you disable Aaron.

  • Windows and scroll bars are now drawn using the Copland 3D style as seen in the various Copland screen shots. These windows have a WindowShade widget at the top right of the title bar. Clicking on it collapses the window to just its title bar.

    [Screenshot: Copy Progress Bar]

  • Transforms the Finder progress boxes to look like the Copland screen shots. This also partially affects some progress bars in other applications. It looks so cool that you will be copying and trashing files just to see the progress box!

  • Provides a new Copland-style pop-up menu button. This affects only those programs that take advantage of the System 7 pop-up menu routines, so please do not complain if the pop-ups in your favorite application or control panel remain unchanged.

  • Those little disclosure triangles in Finder list views take on a slight 3D effect.

  • Adds spinning zoom rects to the Finder. These require a 68040 or better to enable themselves, else you'll just get plain ol' zoom rects.

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