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- April 1991 - Tim Hoffman
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- This is just a little program I whipped up as the 1st in a series of
- Animated Backgrounds for Windows. Basically you get a whole bunch of ants
- crawling around on the desktop. The will go BEHIND all open windows and icon.
- The ants will note go beyond the screen boudary. They will also run away from
- any other ants they encounter.
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- Every once in awhile a slice of bread appears. I know; this is a really
- crude looking slice of bread, but what can you expect for only 3 minutes at
- the bitmap editor? The ants will be magically attracted to this. Who knows
- why ants are attracted to bread? What a strange concept... When an ant "eats"
- it the bread will dissapear and all the ants will go on their merry way.
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- Known Bugs (or "Features")
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- 1. When you close or move a window that an ant was behind the routine that
- clears the ant each time it moves has stored the part of that window
- that the ant was behind and subsequently deposites that on the screen.
- I'm working on this one...
- 2. Sometimes the bread leaves portions of the screen behind also. If you
- have any ideas on this before I release the next version please let
- me know.
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- Planned Enhancements
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- 1. The next version will have a configuration dialog which will allow you to
- modify the number of ants (this is fixed at 6 for now), the maximum and
- minimum speed, the percent chance that a piece of bread will appear, and
- anything else I put in.
- 2. The guys at work are really full of ideas for this: There could be a "Black
- Hole" (like the trashcan one on the NEXT) that appears every so often that
- sucks up the ants.
- 3. You will be able to change the cursor into a can of bug spray with which you
- can spray an ant. It will die and fall to the "ground" (bottom of the
- screen).
- 4. I might put in a "Queen Ant" that leaves eggs behind that hatch into new
- ants.
- 5. This might end up having a screen saver mode also where the ants eat away
- the screen by carrying off small pieces of it.
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- If you have any suggestions you can reach me:
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- On my BBS - Llama Bob's BBS - (214) 890-0BOB (HST 14.4k)
- In a FidoNet echo - The WINDOWS.PROG echo
- Via NetMail - 1:124/6003
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- Oh by the way this program is TOTALLY FREE.
- (Who would pay for a bunch of ants anyway?)
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