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Fortune-Saver - 1.0

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All Time:	(2.8)
This Version:	(2.8)
Current Version:	1.0
Release Date:	2003-12-17
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	1,732
Downloads (all versions):	1,731

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Product Description:

I made this to teach myself how to use NSTask. This screen saver runs the "fortune" command (supposed to be included in Mac OS X, otherwise fink install fortune-mod) and displays the output centered on the screen for a while.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1
Mac OS X 10.0

Additional Requirements:

Should work on any version of Mac OS X
though fortune must be installed (and must reside in /sw/bin/)

Feedback Summary:

This Version:
Overall Rating:	(2.8)	Features:	(2.2)	Support:	(1.7)
Ease of Use:	(2.2)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(4.7)

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Off to a good start - Version: 1.0, 12/20/2003 02:09PM PST

cfred

The program does what's advertised... It displays a random fortune from /sw/bin/fortune on the screen. Once I installed fortune (not included with my 10.2 version), it was just a matter of dragging the saver into the appropriate library.

That said, my wish list for future versions would include:

The ability to customize the command line call for fortune; either to redirect to a path, or for those of us in environments where it's safe to call fortune -a,
The ability to customize the font—especially size and color—of the text on screen, and
The ability to set the interval between fortunes.

OK... - Version: 1.0, 12/18/2003 10:44AM PST

Sippan

There is no documentation, because I assume installing screensavers is relatively straightforward. As for getting fortune, it is actually supposed to be installed already, mine came with the system. If it is not, the VersionTracker page for Fortune-Saver gives the fink command to install it. (Fortune itself is also downloadable from VersionTracker.)

The path is hardcoded because I am still in the learning process, a future version will have a preferences window where you can enter a custom path. I chose /sw/bin because that's where fink puts it.

Why /sw/bin??? - Version: 1.0, 12/18/2003 07:06AM PST

skribble

Why on earth would you hardwire the path to fortune in the application?... Many people may have fortune installed in other places like /usr/local/bin (for the do it yourself people) or /opt/local/bin (for the darwinports people). Blah!