This is a numerical model of movement of material points in flat pseudo-gravitational
field. Model is very rough (after all, I did not ever want to make it precise). But its
roughness makes it even more spectacular.
Click here
to download it. Unzip the archive, right-click dstars.scr
ans select Install menu item.
To uninstall it, just remove the file from your computer.
If you have a multiple monitor system, the build above
(August 1995) works only on the primary monitor.
Here is the build (August 2003) that works on all monitors.
This is the result of my investigations of text drawing
techniques to create "special" visual effects.
Click here
to download it. Unzip the archive, right-click flextext.scr
ans select Install menu item.
To uninstall it, just remove the file from your computer.
If you know what is which program on UNIX, you already know
what it is about. It looks for a specific file(s) in the PATH directory list.
For example, you go to Start - Run Windows menu, type "write" and press
OK. How does MS Windows know which program to start? - It looks
for it in the PATH. Also, each MS Windows program has a list of DLLs which are needed for its
execution - names only, not paths - to find their (DLL) actual location on your computer,
operating system again looks into PATH.
Unlike UNIX which, goWhich finds all occurrences of the specified file
and also understands wildcards.
Click here to download (ZIP archive, 102K)
Any program for Windows is an EXE file (executable) plus several DLLs (program extensions).
Each DLL in turn refers to other DLLs, etc. etc. When one starts a program,
Windows loader analyses this dependency tree, finds all the necessary modules and, if everything is
found, loads them into memory and begins the program execution.
goRefs imitates this dependency resolution process without actually loading
any code. It shows you what is needed for a given program and where will it be found.
Click here to download (ZIP archive, 110K)
This program calculates the number and total size of files and subdirectories
of a given directory. Approximately the same as what you see in Size and Contains
fields of Properties dialog box when you right click a directory in MS Windows Explorer
and select Properties menu item.
The difference is that goTotal also calculates the number
and total size of files of different type, by file extension. That is, it does not just
say you "This directory contains 100 files of total 12M", but also indicates that
"there are 2 .pch files which occupy 80% of those 12M".
Click here to download (ZIP archive, 100K)
The program calculates total size and number of lines of text files. One can specify
either file name(s) or file mask(s), look for files in a single directory or in subdirectories as well.
Great way to find out (at last) how many lines of code is your "killer" app.
Click here to download (ZIP archive, 89K)
This tool lets you hide or show other application windows. It shows you
a list of what it believes to be application windows, both visible and invisible.
Please note, most invisible windows were designed to be invisible.
So, showing them makes absolutely no sense. Still, goHide is an interesting tool.
Sometimes you can discover really interesting effects...
Just remember:
if you show (or hide) a window, it is your responsibility to hide (or show) it after that.
Click here to download (ZIP archive, 78K)