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From: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU (Six o'clock News)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: After Dark "hidden" feature
Message-ID: <27938@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 18 Sep 90 06:18:48 GMT
References: <10151.26f3d369@amherst.bitnet> <27935@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <44916@apple.Apple.COM>
Reply-To: bruce@cory.Berkeley.EDUIn article <44916@apple.Apple.COM> das@Apple.COM (David Shayer) writes:
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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>>>If you select Shut Down from the Special menu and DON'T turn the
>>>machine off when you get the cordial message from Apple that you can
>>>now safely turn off your Macintosh, After Dark will turn itself on,
>>>but will default back to the skyline screen saver. Pretty cool...
>
>Pyro 4.0 does this too.  It has an option to run the screen saver
>after you select shutdown.
>
>David
From: bruce@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Bruce Burkhalter)
Path: cory.Berkeley.EDU!bruce

Actually Pyro! 4.0 does something *similar* but, in my opinion, is sorta
weak.  Pyro! 4.0 installs a "Shutdown Task".  When the Mac is Shutdown, the 
task will be executed.  The problem with this is that it is only done once
and any other program's shutdown task will not be executed until Pyro!'s is
done (i.e. you wake Pyro! up).  If you wake Pyro! up it will never go back
to sleep because the task is only done once thus leaving the screen
unprotected.  

On the other hand, AD 2.0 lets all shutdown tasks execute and then the 
"Safely turn off your Mac" dialog comes up.  AD 2.0 will then work as
normal.  It will time out after X minutes or go to sleep if you move the
mouse to the corner.  The only limitation is that it will only show the
"Starry Night" module.  This is due to the fact the Mac is pretty much
turned off and there is not a lot you can do (though we did try!).

Bruce Burkhalter
Berkeley Systems, Inc.