Re[2]: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-26 Thread Jonas T Larsson
Centuries ago Nostradamus foresaw that Lars would write the following on Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:24:53 [GMT +0100]: The icon animation would be a lot more useful if it did actually work in the way you suggest. One possibility would be for the icon to animate only if there are new messages since

Re: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-26 Thread Dierk Haasis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Jonas! On Monday, February 26, 2001 at 10:10:22 AM you wrote: Let me add a wish here. In order to make the flapping useful for me it is necessary to be able to exclude folders/trees from the indicator, the usefulness of the indicator

Re: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-26 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Jonas, On 26 February 2001 at 10:10:22 +0100 (which was 09:10 where I live) Jonas T Larsson wrote and made these points: snip JTL (Marking your messages as read is not a viable option just JTL for this little benefit) Not necessarily. You

Re[2]: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-26 Thread Jonas T Larsson
Centuries ago Nostradamus foresaw that Marck would write the following on Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:26:59 [GMT +]: Alternatively turn off animation completely and turn on the ticker, enable the age limit, exclude list folders from inclusion, turn off auto-zoom, shrink it (by dragging the edge

Re[4]: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-25 Thread jlaikan
bats, have some rest please. Anyway this is a personal opinion only. MM This is not mailing list for posting off topic messages. If the rules of this list strictly allow discussing only the support aspects of the Bat!, I will abide by them. -- Best regards, jlaikan

Re: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-25 Thread Lars Geiger
Hi jlaikan, On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, at 20:26:44 +0400 you wrote: What I said is that the logo's animation gives the impression of some advertising going on.Put 2 computers running the Bat! side by side (one with animation and the other without). Any visitor coming in will more probably notice the

Re[2]: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-25 Thread Dave Braze
Hello Lars, Sunday, February 25, 2001, 1:27:50 PM, you wrote: LG So you say that the flapping wings of the bat will attract LG attention? You see, that's exactly what they are made for. The LG flapping wings are supposed to draw the user's attention to the LG fact that there are new

Re[2]: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-25 Thread jlaikan
Hello Ming-Li Lars Sunday, February 25, 2001, 9:36:35 PM, Ming-Li wrote: (it flaps only when there's new ML mail), a clever design IMO. That's something I just learned from you. Thanks for the info. -- Best regards, jlaikanmailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-25 Thread Mark Aston
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 14:37:15 -0500 Dave Braze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The icon animation would be a lot more useful if it did actually work in the way you suggest. One possibility would be for the icon to animate only if there are new messages since the last time TB had focus. Perhaps the

Re: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-25 Thread Lars Geiger
Hi Dave, On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, at 14:37:15 -0500 you wrote: LG the fact that there are new messages Actually the icon animation draws attention to the fact that there are UNREAD messages, which is not quite the same thing Well, usually new messages are unread (unless any filter changed

Re[2]: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-25 Thread jlaikan
Hello Ming-Li, Sunday, February 25, 2001, 9:36:35 PM, you wrote: ML On Sunday, February 25, 2001, 8:26:44 AM, jlaikan wrote: Without offense to you I don't see where my message has been st..id . What I said is that the logo's animation gives the impression of some advertising going on. ML

Re[2]: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-25 Thread jlaikan
Hello Ming-Li, Sunday, February 25, 2001, 9:36:35 PM, you wrote: ML On Sunday, February 25, 2001, 8:26:44 AM, jlaikan wrote: Without offense to you I don't see where my message has been st..id . What I said is that the logo's animation gives the impression of some advertising going on. ML

Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-24 Thread jlaikan
Hello All, I understand that the flying Bats on the task bar and on the inactive title bar are the program's logo. However I find that they attract too much attention, therefore distract too much. We also get the impression that the Bat! is a sort of freeware sponsored by advertising (all those

Re: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-24 Thread Paula Ford
On Saturday, February 24, 2001, jlaikan wrote: Is there a way to get those bats rest a bit? Under Options, deselect Icon Animation. -- Paula Ford The Bat! 1.46c (reg) Windows 95 4.0 Build 950 -- __ Archives :

Re: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-24 Thread SyP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello John, You wrote on 2/24/2001, 4:16 PM: jlaikan Is there a way to get those bats rest a bit? It's an animation consisting of 6 phases. If you are clever, find the wing-flapping bats in thebat.exe's resources, and replace with your own

Re: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-24 Thread Thomas
Hallo jlaikan, On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 19:16:45 +0400 GMT (24/02/2001, 23:16 +0800 GMT), jlaikan wrote: j I understand that the flying Bats on the task bar and on the inactive j title bar are the program's logo. However I find that they attract too much j attention, therefore distract too much. We

Re: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-24 Thread John Phillips
Hello Sunday, February 25, 2001, 2:16:45 AM, someone claiming to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to get those bats rest a bit? Options / Icon Animation -- Regards John Phillips Sydney, Australia Hamster 1.3.22.1 Bat! 1.49 Windows 98 4.10 Build ASony Vaio Notebook

Re[2]: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-24 Thread jlaikan
Hello Thomas, Saturday, February 24, 2001, 9:17:23 PM, you wrote: T Hallo jlaikan, T On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 19:16:45 +0400 GMT (24/02/2001, 23:16 +0800 GMT), T jlaikan wrote: j I understand that the flying Bats on the task bar and on the inactive j title bar are the program's logo. However I

Re[3]: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-24 Thread Marek Mikus
Hello all, Saturday, February 24, 2001, jlaikan wrote: In fact I was mistaken about the terms. I referred to those softwares that are supported by advertising and not to freewares. Therefore if the Bat! advertised for itself and is not a freeware, where would the money come from? Well first,

Re: Flying bats, have some rest please.

2001-02-24 Thread Dierk Haasis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Paula! On Saturday, February 24, 2001 at 4:35:14 PM you wrote: Under Options, deselect Icon Animation. Another way would be to hide the (stupid) task bar - right click free space on it, go to "Properties" and check the second box (Win95). I