Tiny Dancing Elephant (with digital clock) v1.21 (C) Copyright IBM Corp. 1992 Some years ago, someone in the computer industry said that it would be as hard to get a good personal computer from IBM as it would be to teach an elephant to tap-dance. Shortly thereafter, IBM introduced the IBM PC, and set a new industry standard. Since that time, tap-dancing elephants have been a kind of running joke within IBM. ELEPHANT is a little demo of OS/2 animation using icons. It displays a small icon-sized picture of a little elephant, standing on a red carpet, dancing in front of a breaking window. Unfortunately, the breaking window may be hard to discern, because of the small size of the icon image. The program also displays a digital clock, in order to provide some marginal utility. Some users have also reported using ELEPHANT as a system usage monitor. As a system gets busier, the elephant's dancing becomes slower and jerkier. Using the program: --------------------------------------------------------------- Start ELEPHANT.EXE. Double-clicking mouse button 2 over the window will change the dancing speed. This does not work over the iconized window. Clicking mouse button 1 over the window or iconized window will make the elephant stop dancing. This reduces the number of timer-pops that are generated, and may improve performance on an overloaded system. The clock is still updated, even when the dancing is stopped. Because of the way mouse button 1 is used to start/stop dancing, the iconized window can only be moved around the desktop with mouse button 2. The program has not yet been extensively tested on different displays, so it's possible there may be some positioning problems in which the elephant's image overlays the time. --------------------------------------------------------------- There is no online help. This is the only documentation. No enhancements are currently planned. Kudos are welcome. Reports of any serious bugs are welcome. Requests for enhancements will be greeted in a lukewarm fashion. Requests to make it fully CUA compliant may be greeted by outright hostility (remember, this is a toy program). --------------------------------------------------------------- I wrote the program after someone on IBM's internal OS2ARENA FORUM suggested that a tap-dancing elephant might be a good OS/2 mascot. This program was developed on my own time. This program is dedicated to the overworked OS/2 2.0 developers of IBM in Boca Raton, Florida. They're the ones who are really teaching the elephant to dance. --------------------------------------------------------------- Change History: v1.00 02/27/92 - Initial release v1.10 03/03/92 - improved animation, better icon spacing within the window for systems with large icons. v1.20 05/12/92 - now remembers window position between invocations v1.21 07/28/92 - added "About" box, copyright notice, to satisfy EWS req't. David Slauson IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, NY.