[comp.sys.mac] Keyboard Light Sequencer

rrkasegu@athena.mit.edu (Rick R. Kaseguma) (03/14/90)

Announcing Key Lights - The Keyboard Light Sequencer

Key Lights is a CDEV which makes the Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock
lights on an Apple Extended Keyboard sequence in a back and fourth motion.
The Control Panel interface allows you to set the speed and mode of
sequencing, as well as turn the sequencing on and off without having to
restart.  Key Lights requires only 3.5 K of RAM and works correctly under
Single and MultiFinder on any Macintosh which supports the Extended ADB
Keyboard.

The program has been submitted to comp.binaries.mac, and is now available
in the sumex-aim.stanford.edu archives as "info-mac/cdev/key-lights.hqx".

The program is HappiWare.  If you like it, smile!  And please send a picture
postcard of your hometown to the address below.  MPW C source is available by
e-mail.  

Smile!

Rick Kaseguma, Mac Programmer/Consultant/Bartender
rrkasegu@athena.mit.edu (ARPA internet)
474 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139        

haphip@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Jeffq) (03/14/90)

I've noticed it slows down mouse/pointer response, but if you put it on 'slow',
it is hardly a problem at all.  In my lifetime of mac extended kybrd use, I've
NEVER seen the 'Num lock' or the 'scroll lock' lights show.  It's fun to 
exercise them!
-Jq

-- 
     |    |  /---\   /---\  /---\    Lord Hippo the Nefarious
     |    |  |       \___   |        Ex-Funk Director of Santa Cruz
     |    |  |           \  |        Devote Worshipper of the Fertility
     \____/  \___/   \___/  \---/            Goddess [don't ask]

long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com (Rich Long) (03/15/90)

In article <1990Mar14.043421.5856@athena.mit.edu>, rrkasegu@athena.mit.edu (Rick R. Kaseguma) writes...
>Announcing Key Lights - The Keyboard Light Sequencer

>Key Lights is a CDEV which makes the Num Lock, Caps Lock, and Scroll Lock
>lights on an Apple Extended Keyboard sequence in a back and fourth motion.

This sounds neat--I'm really looking forward to it.  One thing I would love to
see, though, is a screen saver that would do what Key Lights does only when
the screen is blanked (just like my DEC workstation).  

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 /'')  /'~  /   | long@mcntsh.enet.dec.com            | Ramparts are parts of a
/''\  /,,  /,,  | ...!decwrl!mcntsh.enet.dec.com!long |  ram.  People used to
Richard C. Long | long%mcntsh.dec@decwrl.enet.dec.com |  watch o'er them.