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From: CHarding@massey.ac.nz (C.R. Harding)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Color cycling
Summary: a background animation was posted to c.b.i.p
Keywords: background window animation c.b.i.p
Message-ID: <1050@massey.ac.nz>
Date: 5 Oct 90 07:55:02 GMT
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>>  There are a number of programs for the X window system that
>> will perform some action in the background (or root) window such as
>> bounce a ball around or 3d wire-traced polyhedron (ico I believe 
>> does this). Anyways such programs eat cpu cycles, however a similar
>> program for MS Windows might be interesting.

> I have such a program (no, I didn't write it).  It's called FUSE.EXE, and it
> runs a QIX-like thing around on the WIN30 wallpaper.  It's interesting, and
> although it does eat a few cycles, it's not too terrible.  I don't think
> this program uses color-cycling, though.  The only drawback seems to be that
> there is no 'OFF' switch; you can't open a dialog box to it, and it doesn't
> leave an icon anywhere.

Recently posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc was a program called
STARS.EXE which provides a background of stars slowly radiating
outwards from the centre of the screen (ie forward view of spacecraft
in flight). If you click the mouse anywhere on the background (ie
anywhere that isn't a window of some sort) it pops up a control menu
that lets you set the speed of the stars' movement (Stop, Warp, or
Impulse Drive) and also provides options that will run COMMAND.COM or
Notepad etc.

Unfortunately it appears to have been written for
Windows 2.xx as it also provides a menu option that runs the MSDOS
Executive (rather than file manager or prog manager). However, a
groovy little program!


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Craig Harding			C.R.Harding@massey.ac.nz
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