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- ZoomIdle Desk Accessory
- Article 1011 of net.sources.mac:
- >From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
- Date: 31 Mar 86 19:56:31 GMT
- Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center
-
- ZoomIdle Desk Accessory
-
- ZoomIdle falls into the class of screen saver desk accessories that
- darken the screen, but display a moving object or objects to indicate
- that the Macintosh is turned on. ZoomIdle's display consists of
- successive random rectangles, each zoomed (i.e., smoothly interpolated)
- into the next. There are no advantages to ZoomIdle over, say, Larry
- Rosenstein's Idle. In fact, ZoomIdle is definitely inferior in that it
- doesn't temporarily restore the normal display when the option key is
- held down, as Idle does. On the other hand, I myself almost never
- use that feature, so I don't miss it much. ZoomIdle is written in
- (what else?) Rascal. It takes 1732 bytes.
-
- To quit, click the mouse somewhere below the menu bar. If you hold the
- mouse button down in the menu bar, ZoomIdle stops drawing temporarily.
- You can use this fact to view each series of interpolated rectangles.
-
- You might also try hitting a key now and then. This causes the number
- of steps in each interpolative series to change. At the extreme, the
- number of steps goes to one - effectively changing the display to a
- set of randomly chosen rectangles.
-