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- From: leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry)
- Subject: Re: What is user activity?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.120208.23687@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
- References: <4054@isgtec.isgtec.com> <1993Jan25.114326.12418@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> <728138356.28287@minster.york.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:02:08 GMT
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- In article <728138356.28287@minster.york.ac.uk> mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk (Mathew Lodge) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.114326.12418@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> leo@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Leo Hendry) writes:
- >> 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
- >
- >| Mathew Lodge | "What think you, my lord, of... Love?" |
- >| mjl-b@minster.york.ac.uk | "You mean rumpy-pumpy?" |
- >| Langwith College, Uni of York, UK | -- Blackadder II |
-
- Come on, I'm not being that mean - would you expect a commercial company to
- give away their secrets? I do often post here to pass on things that I have
- found out (and am rarely thanked).
- Anyway, I'm sure somebody of your programming experience could work out how
- I have done it (using totally legal programming methods). Consider that I
- have left the method as an exercise to the reader if you prefer.
- If anybody is currently writing a .ACC that could really do with some way
- of determining the "load" on the computer, let me know and I'll tell you how I
- did it.
- By the way, I will be giving the screen saver away to anybody who registers
- for any of my CPXs (The number of people registered is currently 1).
-
- - Leo
-