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Vajra

Vajra is a shareware screen saver program for MS Windows.  When fired up, it displays animated colorful 3-dimensional geometrical objects in different shapes and colors. It also displays a moving banner message (like Marquee). You can choose the number, type, and size of objects and font, size, color, and text of the message.  You can also choose to make objects bounce around the screen or to move like in starfield simulation.  You can also make the objects leave beautiful colorful trail behind their path.

You can configure Vajra in one of the thousands of possible schemes to please your eyes and to reflect your feelings, mood, and taste. Under certain configurations, Vajra display will be so pleasant that it may help you relax from work pressures and soothe your eyes.

I intend to add a few features to this program during next few months and I intend to support this program for some time.  If you have any suggestions/comments/requests/bug repots, please send me a message at skarkada@aol.com and I will be grateful to you.

Please read the file VAJRA.DOC for license agreement and terms and conditions. Please do not use this program if you do not accept the terms.

Display Mode

Animation

Moving Banner

Object Specifications


Display Mode

You can direct Vajra to display in one of the two modes. When in Bouncing Objects mode, the objects move within the screen and when the objects hit the edges of the screen, they bounce back, change the direction and spin orientation. When in Space Travel mode, the objects appear somewhere in the horizon, move closer to the screen, and then move past the screen edges giving the effect of space travel.

The animation will be slightly faster when the Space Travel mode is chosen.

You can make the objects to leave a trail behind their path. This works in both the Bouncing Objects and Space Travel modes.


Animation

Object Size specifies the size of each of the objects in pixels. The larger the objects are, the slower the animation going to be. If the trail mode is on, this value has no significance.

Frame Delay specifies the time in milli seconds to be waited between two consecutive paintings. If you find that the animation is going too fast on your computer, you can slow it down by increasing the value in this field. The minimum acceptable value is 0.

Object Speed Factor specifies the distance each object should move between two consecutive paintings. If you find that the animation is going too slow on your computer, you can speed it up by increasing this value. However, the animation will not be smooth at high object speed factors.

If you increase the Spin Speed Factor, the objects spin at a faster pace.


Moving Banner

If you want a single message be displayed as the moving banner every time the Vajra screen saver is fired up, select the Single Message radio button and type in your message in the field next to it.

If you choose the Random Vajra Messages option, Vajra selects a random message from a collection of proverbs/sayings/quotes and displays it as the moving banner. These messages are read from VAJRA.MSG file which can be edited by you. You can add your messages to this file or you can create an entirely new file of your own and just name it VAJRA.MSG. Look at VAJRA.MSG under your Windows directory for the format.

Scroll Speed Factor is similar to Object Speed Factor but applied only to the moving banner message. If you are using a very fast computer, the banner may appear fuzzy/blurr. You can make it look sharp by increasing the Sharpness Factor.

If you want to temporarily disable the moving banner, choose the None option.

The 'Font...' push button lets you change the font and color of the moving banner.


Object Specifications

You can specify how many of each objects to be displayed and their fill patterns. To change a specific item, select that item from the list by clicking on the item.  Then the quantity and the fill pattern are brought over to the left side so that you can modify the value. After modifying the value, click the => button to update the list. If you don't click the => button, your changes are lost.

The list is sorted according to the complexity of the object. The more complex the object is, the slower the animation is going to be. Similarly, the animation speed slows down as the total number of objects increase. However, Fill Pattern does not affect the animation speed.


Shareware
A shareware program lets you try it before buying it. You can obtain a shareware product from various sources such as public domain ftp sites, on-line services, a friend, or a shareware CD vendor. The money you pay for the on-line service or the CD is just the fee for their services and distribution costs. They don't pay anything for shareware programmers.

Independent software developers spend hundreds of hours of personal time designing and developing the software products and utilities. They expect you to pay a nominal fee for the software if you find the software useful and if you continue to use it.

Your payment motivates the software developer not only to develop new utilities but also to make enhancements to the current software.