Advent Calendar, ver 1.0 An Advent Calendar has been used in our house every year as a way to count down the days until Christmas, from December 1 to December 25. This year I decided to draw one up for windows and share it with you all. I hope you enjoy it. Basically you just click on the numbered squares to reveal a hidden picture. I have three screens, and to get to the next screen either click on the box marked "more" or choose the menu option "Next Screen". I added the menu options "Open everything" and "Close Everything" so that those of you without a mouse can at least see the pictures. Perhaps next year I'll have a full keyboard interface. The vast majority of the time spent was taken to draw the pictures by hand. The interface was very little work, and I wrote it in one night. The program is written in Actor, an object oriented environment for Windows, and I used their Object Graphics library to help with the bitmaps. The files in the distribution are: advent.exe The executable file advent.ima An overlay file needed by advent.exe advent.dll A resource only DLL holding the bitmap pictures. System requirements: The pictures are 16 color bitmaps generated by Paintbrush. They are a little less than 640x480 in size, although I tried to leave the bottom area a little sparse so you folks with EGA displays can see most of it. As near as I can figure, you will need a little over 600K of FREE memory to run this, about 360K taken up by the program, and the rest for the bitmaps as they are swapped in and out. You'll need a pointing device to click on the pictures. Because of the memory constraints, you'll need Standard mode (or better). Development was done in Standard mode, on the retail version of Windows, under the Academic version of Actor 3.0. I would like to thank The Whitewater Group for selling academic versions of Actor at a price that students can afford. The academic release prevents using it for commercial development, so I am not asking for any money, and I hope this program is distributed freely. If you are an actor programmer, and would like a copy of my source, or would like to register to have next year's version mailed to you, send $10 (to cover postage & disk) to me at: Paul Gyugyi 275 Ventura Ave #26 Palo Alto, CA 94306 ----------------end-of-author's-documentation--------------- Software Library Information: This disk copy provided as a service of Public (software) Library We are not the authors of this program, nor are we associated with the author in any way other than as a distributor of the program in accordance with the author's terms of distribution. Please direct shareware payments and specific questions about this program to the author of the program, whose name appears elsewhere in this documentation. If you have trouble getting in touch with the author, we will do whatever we can to help you with your questions. All programs have been tested and do run. To report problems, please use the form that is in the file PROBLEM.DOC on many of our disks or in other written for- mat with screen printouts, if possible. PsL cannot debug pro- programs over the telephone, though we can answer questions. Disks in the PsL are updated monthly, so if you did not get this disk directly from the PsL, you should be aware that the files in this set may no longer be the current versions. Also, if you got this disk from another vendor and are having prob- lems, be aware that some files may have become corrupted or lost by that vendor. Get a current, working disk from PsL. For a copy of the latest monthly software library newsletter and a list of the 2,000+ disks in the library, call or write Public (software) Library P.O.Box 35705 - F Houston, TX 77235-5705 Orders only: 1-800-2424-PSL MC/Visa/AmEx/Discover Outside of U.S. or in Texas or for general information, Call 1-713-524-6394 PsL also has an outstanding catalog for the Macintosh.