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Welcome to FujiDesk/BeeWatch
Desktop cuties as freeware from WizWorks!
What's FujiDesk? A Fuji symbol that adorns your desktop whenever there
is a menu bar present. In monochrome (normal and bigscreen) and ST
medium, the Fuji rotates at your chosen preset speed. In TT medium and
ST low resolutions, it's a nice rainbow corresponding to all the colors
currently set on the desktop (or whatever program you're in).
What's BeeWatch? The desktop busy bee is cute enough, but a little
boring mostly, especially during long prints and file copies and
whatnot. So, BeeWatch replaces the desktop's busy bee with a ticking
watch! You can set the tick time too!
Both of these features are included in FUJWATCH.PRG which you can place
in your auto folder so they get installed every time you boot the
machine, or you can run it from the desktop if you wish.
Some cautions: FujiDesk is active when there is a menu bar
corresponding to the desktop's menu bar. It detects this by looking
for the menu bar line across the screen. If it finds no line, it will
hide. The only time you may have trouble with FujiDesk is when you are
running a full screen graphics editor and the picture on the screen
just happens to have a solid line where the menu line normally appears
causing you to end up with an unwanted Fuji in your picture. That's
about it. Should this occur, you can turn off both FujiDesk and
BeeWatch by pressing the CONTROL/LEFT SHIFT/ALTERNATE keys down all at
once, then tapping the RIGHT SHIFT key. To turn them back on, just
repeat those keys. This keypress ON/OFF switch is available at ANY
TIME while the computer is turned on.
FujiDesk/BeeWatch uses only about 5K of memory and a system interrupt.
It can be installed repeatedly and will tie up your system interrupts
if you run it more than once. Run it only once from the desktop or
from your auto folder during any one session with the computer.
Other cautions: Both FujiDesk and BeeWatch use fully documented and
supported Line-A variables to do their work. However, it seems that
Line-A is no longer "politically correct" so these things aren't
guaranteed to work with all future versions of TOS nor on some custom
screen boards.
CONFUJ.PRG
This program will allow you to configure FUJWATCH.PRG with some little
enhancements as described below. Just run CONFUJ.PRG from the desktop
and choose from the fileselector the FUJWATCH.PRG you wish to configure
then follow these steps:
BOTH - WATCH - FUJI
Choose whether you want both FujiDesk and BeeWatch to be active, or
just one or the other. This setting is not affected by the OFF/ON key
presses meaning that if both are active, the keys will turn both off
and on or if only one is active, only that one gets turned off and on.
ROTATION SPEED
Set the rotation speed of the Fuji. For STacy owners, you will want to
use SLOW speed so that the LCD screen will have time to update. For
ultra_high metabolism types, FAST will keep you awake at night. For
normal folks, MEDIUM is just dandy.
BEE DELAY
This will set the time that the bee will remain on the screen before
it's replaced by the ticking watch. With harddrives, and some quickly
passing functions which only show the bee for a short time or
repeatedly turn the bee on and off and on again, it's a little
disconcerting to have the bee appear, then the watch, then the arrow,
then the bee then the watch then the arrow.... you get the idea. This
parameter sets BeeWatch to wait a bit before the ticker shows up.
TICKER RATE
Set the tick rate of the watch, 1/4 second, 1/2 second or a full
second. Remember, the ticking of the watch is constant and has nothing
to do with how long the particular task underway will take (BeeWatch
has absolutely no way of knowing the duration anyway). However, if you
have some WizWorks programs which already use the watch instead of the
bee for some tasks, the timer rate will vary and will coincide with the
duration of the task at hand since BeeWatch is built into those
programs themselves.
Speaking of Wizworks programs, for a nice demo disk and catalogue of
our software and hardware products, send $2.00 US to:
WizWorks!
PO Box 45
Girard, OH 44420
PS Fixed for Squishing as per Keith at DC as of 01-03-92