With the myriad of other desktop pattern installers out there, why
another desktop pattern manager? Simple: none of them had the features
that I wanted. None are native for the Power Macintosh; only MacOS 8's
control panel supports drag and drop; and most don't import pictures
as well as I would like. Worst of all, with every desktop pattern
installer out there, there is no easy way to preview all the patterns
in a file at once, or to import many clipping files in at once. So I
wrote one.
Pattern Manager??PatMan??does all those things. It displays patterns
with their names in a user-sizable grid, installs patterns into the
System File, and sets the utilities pattern (which other desktop
pattern installers don't do). It fully supports drag and drop between
files, the Scrapbook, the Finder, and any other program that supports
drag and drop. Just click on a pattern and drag it where you want it.
It fully supports cut and paste (of course). It has the best PICT
importer available, and, remarkable for a desktop pattern manager, it
has resizeable windows. It also has a nifty pattern information
window, and can change the background pattern periodically.
