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ZoomIdle Desk Accessory
Article 1011 of net.sources.mac:
>From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
Date: 31 Mar 86 19:56:31 GMT
Organization: UW-Madison Primate Center
ZoomIdle Desk Accessory
ZoomIdle falls into the class of screen saver desk accessories that
darken the screen, but display a moving object or objects to indicate
that the Macintosh is turned on. ZoomIdle's display consists of
successive random rectangles, each zoomed (i.e., smoothly interpolated)
into the next. There are no advantages to ZoomIdle over, say, Larry
Rosenstein's Idle. In fact, ZoomIdle is definitely inferior in that it
doesn't temporarily restore the normal display when the option key is
held down, as Idle does. On the other hand, I myself almost never
use that feature, so I don't miss it much. ZoomIdle is written in
(what else?) Rascal. It takes 1732 bytes.
To quit, click the mouse somewhere below the menu bar. If you hold the
mouse button down in the menu bar, ZoomIdle stops drawing temporarily.
You can use this fact to view each series of interpolated rectangles.
You might also try hitting a key now and then. This causes the number
of steps in each interpolative series to change. At the extreme, the
number of steps goes to one - effectively changing the display to a
set of randomly chosen rectangles.