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• Fishing Line is an AfterDark™ module that draws random curved lines on the screen. The name comes from the close resemblance with a badly entangled fishing line - kind of a fisherman's nightmare.
• The "Brightness" slider changes the screen brightness. The "Clear every" slider tells the module how often to paint the screen black and start drawing again (if you choose "never" and still want to save the screen, turn the brightness down). The "Speed" slider changes the line drawing speed. "Show needle" displays an arrow on the tip of the line.
• WARNING: Turning up the "Speed" slider on slow machines may severely slow down background tasks and make you wait a while when you're waking up the Mac, especially if the "Show needle" option is checked. The reason is that this slider tells the module how many steps to execute before giving the CPU back to AfterDark: on fast machines 100 steps don't take long, but they will do so on slower Macs. You may adjust the speed slider in "Demo" mode by looking at the time it takes for the Mac to respond to your actions (such as moving a slider). If the mac doesn't respond readily, lower the speed control until it does.
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