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BLINKY: A Cursor Visibility Enhancement Utility
Version 1.0
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Copyright 1992, Farpoint Software
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This program may be freely copied and distributed, as long as the
following conditions are met: (1) No fee is charged other than a normal
time usage fee required by some Bulletin Board Services, or a small
disk duplication fee not to exceed $8, (2) The program is distributed
in its original, unmodified form, and (3) This document file is
included with the executable file without modification. This program
may not be bundled with, or transferred as part of, any package which
is sold or for which any licensing fee is charged.
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This program is released as shareware. This means that you may use the
program for a trial period of up to three weeks, but if you continue to
use it regularly thereafter, a registration fee of $12 is requested.
The registration fee may be sent to:
Farpoint Software
2501 Afton Court
League City, TX 77573-3438
Upon registering, you will be mailed a disk containing the most recent
version of the program, plus a couple of additional free Windows
programs.
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Blinky is a Microsoft Windows program whose purpose is to improve the
visibility of the mouse cursor. This is accomplished in two ways:
(1) The cursor can be made to blink on and off, and (2) The cursor can
be made much larger, displaying either a large black arrow with a white
border or a large white arrow with a black border (or numerous others).
Blinky is intended primarily for laptop users, but a lot of application
programs could benefit from a blinking mouse cursor, even on standard
CRT monitors. It has for years been normal for TEXT screen cursors to
blink.
There are just two files in the archive:
BLINKY.EXE - The executable program.
BLINKY.DOC - This file.
To install the program, simply copy the EXE file into any desired
directory, then start the program as you would any other Windows
program (i.e. place an entry into the Program Manager and double-click
it, or select File/Run from the Program Manager menu and type the full
pathname of BLINKY.EXE as the comamnd line).
Blinky starts up as an icon. It can be configured from the "Setup"
dialog box, accessible from the icon's system menu. While the dialog
box is visible, the following parameters can be set:
Blink rate: Can be set to 250, 500, or 1000 milliseconds. This is
the time taken by the complete on/off cycle.
Duty cycle: Can be set to 75% or 50%. This determines the on-time-
to-off-time ratio. For example, if the blink rate is set to
1000 milliseconds and the duty cycle is set to 75%, then the
cursor will be "on" for 750 milliseconds and "off" for 250
milliseconds of each cycle.
Blink while moving: If checked, then the cursor will blink at all
times. If this option is unchecked, then the cursor will remain
"on" as long as it is in motion, and will start to blink only
while stationary.
Cursor shape: Sets the appearance of the cursor. Try each one to
see its effect.
Blinky automatically saves its configuration in a file named
BLINKY.INI, which will be created in the default directory the first
time Blinky is run. Blinky will NOT put "junk" in your WIN.INI file,
nor will it play with your CONFIG and AUTOEXEC files.