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I propose a computer program put into most standard text viewing programs (such as an internet browser or word processor) which constantly changes the color and brightness of the background, yet so slow that the transition goes unnoticed, so as not to be a distraction. This would make it much easier
on the eyes when staying up late working on the HB. Another thing that would be nice for this is to have it always stay "close" to the color of the screen that might result when the program is closed, minimzed, etc., preventing that instant headache one experiences when going from a dark screen to a light screen. Perhaps when technology gets more advanced, your computer can sense when you're sad and slowly cheer you up by going to cheerful colors and perhaps slowly fading in music. There are endless possibilities!
The Random Holiday Generator
http://www.geocitie...tml/halfbakery.html
Fair warning, it's a big download. [phoenix, Jul 22 2002, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Changing the desktop background is Baked - you can get shareware to do this. Just configure one of those to slowly cycle the background color. |
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There is way to override the background color of a browser page, although I forget how. |
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Cycling the background color of the active window seems to be a novel suggestion, and a low impact alternative to LSD. |
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Cycling background colors is baked under Linux, though I don't recall which program does it (ChBg perhaps?), as I don't use it. |
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My Linux background is an ambient indicator of the battery level on my laptop. I've hacked it so that it's a bright blue sky (cyan-to-white gradient) when the battery is fully charged, and it gradually darkens to evening (dark-blue-to-blue gradient), then sunset (blue-to-orange-to-red gradient), then nighttime (black-purple gradient) as the battery drains. This gives me a sense of how the battery is doing without taking up extra screen space or annoying me with beeping alarms. I've had this setup for a few years, and now it just kind of gives me this "feeling" of how long it will last or whether charging is urgently needed. |
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I do this in many of my programs as I hate strictly utilitarian software. Sometimes I do it subtly and in a limited set of RGB values, other times it's purely random. |
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At the risk of sounding self-promoting, I've posted a link to the one HB-inspired program I have available for download. Both the text and background color cycle, but the text is more obvious. |
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Apple's new Mac OS 10.2 lets you set the desktop backgrounds to change automatically. They can also animate. What the hell for, I don't know. But this is baked. |
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Well, sorry for wasting space. I have never seen one for Windows, though, which is what I proudly use. Thanks for your support! |
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I've also made a dynamic background for WinXP desktop; but I made a flash animation, .html setting it to fullscreen, and then simply set that .html as the background. However, I thought fogfreak wanted to change the background of the application window. I don't think anybody has suggested a way to do that, except DrCurry's mention of browsers, which can be done with CSS and IE's Accessibility options. |
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