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- Short: WB-Pic random selector (shows really all pics!)
- Author: a.boerner@bbrandes.berlinet.de (Andreas Boerner)
- Uploader: sysop@bbrandes.berlinet.de (Bernd Brandes)
- Type: util/rexx
-
- YARSelector
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-
- Yet Another Random Selector
- ---------------------------
-
- Yes, this is also a random selector for Workbench background pictures.
- It is simple, it is ARexx but it has one feature most of the other
- 'pseudo-random' selectors don't have:
-
- It randomly shows *all* your Pictures in a given dir and you don't get
- bored of viewing the same picture every third startup, while
- discovering some of them two times a year.
-
-
- How it works?
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- YARSelector saves a list with the shown pictures in the picture
- directory on every startup. Next startup, it reads this list and
- excludes all pictures, appearing in this list, from the random
- selection. Then the new list is saved.
-
- So the program random-selects a picture only if it was not shown
- before until all pictures in the dir have been shown one time and so
- on.
-
- ---
-
- Let me say, that this script took about three hours of my life and I
- hope it takes no further minute - it should work and hopefully that's
- all.
-
- I published YARSelector, because I think, it maybe useful for some
- people, but I will never publish an update for it. If you want to use
- the script and it doesn't work, email me and I help you to get the
- script working, but that's it.
-
- So, if you want, download the script, use it, change it, get inspired
- from it or whatever you want.
-
-
- Have fun!
-
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- 5672 2626 53.7% 25-Feb-97 23:32:54 YARSelector.doc
- 2851 1106 61.2% 25-Feb-97 23:33:28 YARSelector.rexx
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- 8523 3732 56.2% 02-Apr-97 19:13:06 2 files
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