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- Tiny Dancing Elephant (with digital clock) v1.21
-
- (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1992
-
- Some years ago, someone in the computer industry said that it
- would be as hard to get a good personal computer from IBM as it
- would be to teach an elephant to tap-dance. Shortly thereafter,
- IBM introduced the IBM PC, and set a new industry standard.
- Since that time, tap-dancing elephants have been a kind of
- running joke within IBM.
-
- ELEPHANT is a little demo of OS/2 animation using icons. It
- displays a small icon-sized picture of a little elephant,
- standing on a red carpet, dancing in front of a breaking window.
- Unfortunately, the breaking window may be hard to discern,
- because of the small size of the icon image.
-
- The program also displays a digital clock, in order to provide
- some marginal utility. Some users have also reported using
- ELEPHANT as a system usage monitor. As a system gets busier,
- the elephant's dancing becomes slower and jerkier.
-
-
- Using the program:
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- Start ELEPHANT.EXE.
-
- Double-clicking mouse button 2 over the window will change
- the dancing speed. This does not work over the iconized
- window.
-
- Clicking mouse button 1 over the window or iconized window will
- make the elephant stop dancing. This reduces the number of
- timer-pops that are generated, and may improve performance on
- an overloaded system. The clock is still updated, even when the
- dancing is stopped.
-
- Because of the way mouse button 1 is used to start/stop dancing,
- the iconized window can only be moved around the desktop with
- mouse button 2.
-
- The program has not yet been extensively tested on different
- displays, so it's possible there may be some positioning
- problems in which the elephant's image overlays the time.
-
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-
- There is no online help.
- This is the only documentation.
- No enhancements are currently planned.
-
- Kudos are welcome.
- Reports of any serious bugs are welcome.
- Requests for enhancements will be greeted in a lukewarm fashion.
- Requests to make it fully CUA compliant may be greeted by
- outright hostility (remember, this is a toy program).
-
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-
- I wrote the program after someone on IBM's internal OS2ARENA FORUM
- suggested that a tap-dancing elephant might be a good OS/2
- mascot. This program was developed on my own time.
-
- This program is dedicated to the overworked OS/2 2.0 developers
- of IBM in Boca Raton, Florida. They're the ones who are really
- teaching the elephant to dance.
-
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- Change History:
- v1.00 02/27/92 - Initial release
- v1.10 03/03/92 - improved animation, better icon spacing within the
- window for systems with large icons.
- v1.20 05/12/92 - now remembers window position between invocations
- v1.21 07/28/92 - added "About" box, copyright notice, to satisfy EWS req't.
-
-
- David Slauson
- IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Yorktown Heights, NY.