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- The Windows 3.1 Screen Saver Series
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- Random Screen Savers (RandScrn)
- Activation Corners (SSActive)
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- Bouncing Lines
- Circles
- Lasers
- Random Pixels
- Random Rectangles
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- Version 1.00
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- Copyright (c) 1992 David A. Feinleib.
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- Introduction
-
- Windows 3.1 comes with several screen savers, but it requires you to choose
- one of those savers to run; unlike other commercial screen saver
- packages, it cannot pick a screen saver randomly.
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- RandScrn is a Windows 3.1 screen saver that allows you to run screen savers
- randomly. In addition, it can change the saver that is running while a
- screen saver is active (if one saver is running, after a certain number
- of seconds, it will automatically run a different randomly selected
- saver).
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- RandScrn allows you to choose which screen savers you want included in
- the list from which savers will be selected randomly (this means that
- you can leave all of the savers in your Windows directory, but you do not
- have to make use of all of them). In addition, you can select
- which directory you want to store your screen savers in.
-
- In addition, RandScrn allows you to select corners of the screen to which
- the mouse cursor can be moved to make the screen savers active or
- inactive.
-
- The Activate corner allows you to make RandScrn active simply by moving the
- mouse cursor to the corner of the screen that you specify. If the mouse
- cursor is moved to the Sleep corner, the cursor will change to reflect the
- sleep state and RandScrn will not be activated (no screen savers will be
- run).
-
- Revisions in RandScrn
-
- Version 1.00 [April 17, 1992]
-
- Initial Release.
-
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- Installation
-
- To install RandScrn, place randscrn.scr, the other .scr files
- that came with this program, ssactive.exe, sslib.dll, and sslib.hlp,
- in your Windows directory. From the Control Panel, Select
- Desktop, then select Random Screen Savers in the combo box that
- lists the screen savers. Then select Setup in the Screen Savers group.
- You will now be in the RandScrn setup dialog box.
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- Activation Corners (SSActive)
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- The Activate corner allows you to make RandScrn active simply by moving the
- mouse cursor to the corner of the screen that you specify. If the mouse
- cursor is moved to the Sleep corner, the cursor will change to reflect the
- sleep state and RandScrn will not be activated (no screen savers will be
- run).
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- To change the Activate and Sleep corners, select Setup from the
- Control Panel Desktop options. Then select the corners that you want to
- use for Activate and Sleep.
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- Note: In order to provide the Activate and Sleep options, RandScrn makes user
- of ssactive.exe, which is included in this package. The first time you
- select corners, RandScrn will allow you to modify the load= line in win.ini
- so that ssactive.exe will be run when Windows is started. If ssactive
- is not run, then you cannot make use of the corners feature. Once ssactive
- is running, you may unload it by running it again from the Program Manager.
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- Included Screen Savers
- Along with RandScrn, The Windows 3.1 Screen Saver Series comes with
- several other screen savers including, Bouncing Lines, Random Rectangles,
- Random Pixels, Circles, and Laser Show. You will receive more screen
- savers upon registration.
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- Bouncing Lines
-
- The Bouncing Lines screen saver bounces lines around the screen. You
- may set the number of trailing lines (up to 75).
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- Random Pixels
-
- Random Pixels displays random pixels in random colors on the screen.
- You may set the number of pixels that will be displayed before
- the screen is cleared and the pixels are started over. Enter
- -1 in the edit box to have an unlimited number of pixels displayed.
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- You may also set the speed at which pixels are drawn on the screen.
-
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- Random Rectangles
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- Random rectangles displays random rectangles in random colors on the screen.
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- Laser Show
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- The Laser Show screen saver displays moving lasers on the screen. From the
- Setup box, you can adjust the speed, laser width, spacing between
- lines, line width, color change, number of rays, and laser duration.
-
-
- Circles
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- The Circles screen saver displays circles "dropping" on the screen, like rain
- drops. You can change the maximum circle size and the number of circles
- displayed at a time, along with whether the screen should be cleared before
- the circles start appearing.
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- Getting Help
-
- All of the Screen savers make use of Windows 3.x help. To get help
- about a specific screen saver, select the Help pushbutton in that
- screen saver's Setup box.
-
- Thanks!
-
- My thanks to Brad Smith for his help in testing the screen savers.
-
- How to Contact Me
-
- You may contact me in any of the following ways:
-
- Mail: David A. Feinleib
- 1430 Massachusetts Avenue
- Suite 306-42
- Cambridge, MA 02138
-
- CompuServe: 76516,20
-
- Internet: 76516.20@compuserve.com
-
- BIX: pgm
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- ShareWare
-
- This program is ShareWare. Please register by sending $12 + $4 (total
- $16) to me at the address above. Please make all checks payable in
- US dollars. Comments and suggestions for new screen savers would be
- greatly appreciated. Upon registration, you will receive several new
- screen savers, including Balloons and Circles 2.
-
- You may copy the screen savers and give them to others, as long as
- all of the files are included, unaltered. This program includes
- randscrn.scr, ssactive.exe, lines.scr, circles.scr, lasers.scr, pixels.scr,
- randrect.scr, sslib.dll, sslib.hlp, and randscrn.doc.
-
- If you are a ShareWare distributor, please contact me before you
- distribute this program.
-
- Disclaimer
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-
- All of the screen savers are supplied as is. The author disclaims
- all warranties expressed or implied, including, without limitation,
- the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose.
- The author assumes no liability for damages, direct or conse-
- quential, which may result from the use of the screen savers.
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