Alessandro Levi Montalcini
C.so Re Umberto 10
10121 Torino
Italy
e-mail: lmontalcini@pmn.it

Blood 2.01 documentation - July 1994

• Introduction
◊  Blood is an absolutely useless control panel that puts some drops of blood right on your desktop. The drops will float over all your windows and will behave like actual holes in your screen. You may move the drops by dragging them somewhere else or remove them by holding down the option key when you click inside a drop. Blood shouldn't crash, but use it at your own risk.

• Instructions
◊  Note: all changes to Blood’s settings will take effect at next restart.
◊  On/Off turns Blood on and off.
◊  Count lets you change the number of drops to display.
◊  Size lets you change their size.
◊  Show blood at startup tells Blood to show its blood drops during the startup process.

• Distribution
◊  Blood is free. You may give it away to your friends, post it on BBS's or include it in any non-commercial stuff you can possibly think of, as long as the control panel and documentation is not modified in any way. If you really like Blood, send me a postcard. You may include suggestions or bug reports if you want to.

• Special Considerations
◊  If you can bear Blood for more than half an hour, you've earned it.

• Warning
◊  The System 7 Finder runs with very little memory. Increasing the number and size of the holes takes up memory, so you may end up with the Finder stuck into a "Not enough memory" message. If this happens just reboot with the extensions disabled, decrease the number and/or size of the holes and try again.

• Version History
◊  2.01 - Recompiled with latest version of the compiler and updated documentation
◊  2.0 - Fixed a few bugs for Owen W. Linzmayer and his new book.
◊  1.02 - Too many holes could make the Finder go into an endless "Error 25" loop (not enough memory), so both the number and size upper limits have been lowered.
◊  1.01 - The windows are now updated correctly when a hole is moved or killed, and the Control Panel knows whether Blood is installed or not.
◊  1.0 - First public release.