[X-SW] Moire X v2.0 released, feedback would be appreciated

[Hex Star]

Sorry about that, it was late when I sent this out and I was using a
message I had sent to another mailing list who already had knowladge
of the screensaver, I later realized that I didn't provide any real
information on what the screensaver is but never got around to
providing that info and I apologize.

Moire X is a clone of the original Moire screensaver which was created
by John Lim. Moire X allows users of Mac OS X to enjoy Moire rather
then just users of Mac OS 9 and below as provided by the original
Moire. There is a pretty good (IMO) collection of information on this
screensaver which can be found in the news section of the Moire X
sourceforge.net project area, here's the link:
http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=151203 and the mainpage is:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/moirex/ , you can also see screenshots
of Moire X v2.0 here: http://moiress.com/ss/ . In addition I also
recommend that for users of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and below you download
this release of Moire X (v2.0.1): binary:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/moirex/moire2.0.1.binary.zip?download
and source: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/moirex/moire2.0.1.source.zip?download
as it fixes a bug users of Mac OS X 10.3.9 and below experienced where
clicking the Option button to view the preferences for the screensaver
did nothing except freeze the preview until the Preview button was
clicked. Again I apologize for the initial lack of information I
provided and hope now that you have this information you'll be willing
to try out my screensaver and provide any feedback you may have. And
of course, if you still feel you are in need of some information, feel
free to let me know what information you need and I'll do my best to
provide it to you. :-)



On 12/22/05, Peter Saint James <peterstj at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>         Okay, here's your first feedback.
>
>         You sent this message without even mentioning what Moire does.  When
> I have seen this behavior, I have found that the sender of such
> messages does not think from the message recipient's viewpoint.  Any
> product that person might produce would also probably follows the
> same pattern: it's not designed or documented from the user's viewpoint.
>
>         You would be wise to start this message all over again.  Introduce
> your subject in a polite way that does not assume knowledge the
> recipient is not likely to have or that they have nothing else to
> think about than you and your product.  Before you do that, you might
> do well to look at your software, especially the documentation, and
> see if it needs the same treatment.  Better yet, have someone else do
> it who knows nothing about the program and see if they understand it.
>
>
>                                                         Peter
>
>
>
>
> On 20 Dec 2005, at 1:11 AM, Hex Star wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone. I've finally come out with Moire X v2.0 which has many
> > new and improved features, here's the feature list:
> >
> > - From the Moire Color section you can chose whether to have it
> > randomly change colors or you can specify a color of your choice, in
> > addition in the Moire Color section you can specify settings such as
> > line thickness (new!)
> > - You can chose to have it randomly change shapes at intervals
> > specified by the user from the screensaver preference panel
> > - You can change the speed of the screensaver (new!)
> > - You can specify the number of lines used in the screensaver (new!)
> > - The preferences have been reorganized to look like the preferences
> > do in the original Moire (new!)
> > - You can chose from the preference panel to show a clock in the top
> > right corner of the screen or not
> > - You can chose from the following shapes: Diamond, Circle, Cross,
> > Hour-Glass, Rectangle, Pentagram, Slash, Back-slash, Triangle, V, X,
> > Dyson's Folly
> >
> > You can download the binary for free here:
> > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/moirex/moirev2-binary.zip?download
> > and the source code can be freely downloaded here:
> > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/moirex/moirev2-source.zip?download
> > . Any feedback you guys have on this new version of Moire X would be
> > greatly appreciated. Enjoy!
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