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- From: mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
- Subject: Re: What is user activity?
- Message-ID: <728138356.28287@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 12:39:17 GMT
- References: <726852019.7184@minster.york.ac.uk> <1993Jan19.104933.4746@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <4054@isgtec.isgtec.com> <1993Jan25.114326.12418@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
- Reply-To: mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk (Mathew Lodge)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1993Jan25.114326.12418@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry) writes:
- > BTW, I am currently working on a
- >screen saver myself which has some handy features.
- > 1) Works in all graphics modes possible (in theory)
- > 2) Uses sliding block type screen saver when memory is low and jiggles
- >the blocks back into place when finished.
- > 3) If the machine is busy (eg. you are compiling something in Lattice
- >C5.5, then the screen saver will not lock up the computer. Instead it blanks
- >the screen and lets the machine multi-task until it becomes idle, when it
- >unblanks and goes back into normal screen saver mode.
- >
- >I'm not telling how I do no. 3 because it's rather clever (although
- >probably easy in multi-tos) and I want my screen saver to be the only one
- >worth having.
-
- Are you really so mean spitited? Think about all those techniques you picked
- up from other people while learning to program the ST. And when you come up
- with one of your own you're not willing to share it?
-
- I'm disgusted beyond belief.
-
- >- Leo
-
- Mat
-
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