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"Fortune" (c) by David Fry, October 9, 1986
Fortune is a spinoff of the fortune game/utility on Unix machines. It
displays a randomly selected saying in a window. These sayings are
stored in a resource file called "Cookies".
Cookies contains 'STR#' resources numbered 1, 2, 3,... up to the maximum
number of cookies. The Cookies file distributed with this posting has
only 46 cookies, but you are welcome and encouraged to edit and add
to these. You can even have several files, however the program
will only access the one named Cookies. Just rename the others to
reflect their content, like "Philosophic Cookies".
I want to write a supplementary program called Cookie Editor for
changing and testing the sayings but I just don't have the time now.
I didn't want to holdup the rest of the program anymore, so for now
you'll have to use ResEdit. Be sure to number cookies successively; if
you want to add your own saying to this file, add a new 'STR#' resource
and change its ID to 47 (in this case) with the "Get Info" option.
When the program runs, a code of the form "N/M" appears in the
left-hand side of the menu bar, where N and M are whole numbers. N
is the resource ID of the saying that is displayed, and M is the
total number of sayings in the Cookies file. These figures should
be useful for editing the file. If cookie #12, say, is offensive, get out
ResEdit and delete it. Then be sure to change cookie #M to #12 so that
the numbers remain successive.
The saying will stay on the window until you click the mouse, where upon
a new saying is displayed. If insteaded of clicking, you hit a key or
allow a certain amount of time to pass (determined by the length of the
cookie but usually about 5-6 seconds) the Mac returns to the Finder.
To keep the program simple there is no error checking other than verifying
that the Cookies file actually exists. If it can't be found you'll be
informed, but if you mess up the numbering order of the 'STR#' resources
there is no guarantee that you'll still see a message. NOTE TO HFS USERS:
The Fortune application can be anywhere on your volume, but place the
Cookies file in your System Folder.
I hope you get a chuckle out of this program. I think it's especially
fun for hard disk users. If you find any good Cookies I'd appreciate
it if you'd send them my way.
David Fry
Department of Mathematics
Harvard University
1 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
GEnie: D.FRY
CompuServe: 73317,1265
UUCP: ...!harvard!huma1!fry
BITNET: fry@harvma1.BITNET or fry%huma1@harvsc4.BITNET
ARPA: fry@huma1.harvard.EDU