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From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Moire Bug? Also Flex
Message-ID: <2454@cxsea.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 88 17:21:32 GMT
References: <583@unh.UUCP> <11010034@hpfcdc.HP.COM> <9584@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU>
Reply-To: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Organization: Computer X Inc.
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Derek J. LeLash (derek@eleazar.dartmouth.edu) writes:
Is there
|a screen saver out there that will:
|- Do something vaguely interesting on-screen.
|- Allow printing, etc. to go on "behind it" even in the case of MacWrite Image-
|  writer printing, where the application does not generate any screen activity
|  during printing.
|- Allow some control over timing, "always sleep" and "never sleep" areas, etc.

I'll be releasing a new version of Fade to Black in a bit, which does all
of these.  It allows printing and modem activity (uploading and
downloading files in particular) to go on while the screen has been
blanked (although only on the 512Ke, Plus, and SE), you can set the delay
time, configure what events (keystrokes, mouse movement, disk insertion,
or mouse click) wake things up, and modify the delay time by cursor
placement.  You can also do some configuration of how the screen is
blanked, and what is displayed while blanked.

I'll be releasing this to the world at large after I've sent a copy to
everyone who sent me money or comments on the original version.  I'm
working on copying disks now, so it shouldn't be too long.

-- 
Brian L. Matthews  blm@cxsea.UUCP   ...{mnetor,uw-beaver!ssc-vax}!cxsea!blm
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