Eclipse Documentation

___________________________________ Documentation by David Dunham Special thanks to "Cajun" David Richard, Andrew Welch and Matt Slot ©1995-8 by Ambrosia Software, Inc. Welcome to Eclipse 3 Flying toasters and exploding rabbits are fun for a while, but perhaps you’re getting a little tired of using a screen saver that takes up huge amounts of disk space, devours memory, slows down your Macintosh, and causes inexplicable crashes? Or perhaps you’re using one of the many unsupported, slightly buggy, feature-starved shareware screen savers? If either is the case, we have the screen saver for you. Introducing Eclipse 3: a lean, mean, 100 percent PowerPC native screen saving machine that works great on 68K Macs as well. To eliminate the problem of extension conflicts, we designed Eclipse as an application so that it retains the benefits of extension-based screen savers while avoiding their propensity to cause problems. After all, a screen saver is supposed to save your screen, not crash your machine. Unlike some other screen savers, Eclipse uses very little memory and processor time to do its job. Thus, Eclipse will never slow down your Macintosh. However, even with Eclipse’s svelte form, it offers all of the useful features you could ever want in a screen saver, presented in an elegant and straight-forward user interface. Moreover, Eclipse doesn’t merely dim the screen; it displays the current time floating on the screen, graphics (PICTs, JPEGs and GIFs) and QuickTime™ movies from a folder full of choices. You can select the graphics and movies to be displayed by dropping them into the Eclipse Graphics folder. In addition, Eclipse offers such conveniences as password protection, and you can customize its extensive feature set any way you like. Eclipse Documentation Welcome to Eclipse 3 In addition to these traditional phosphor burn-in prevention methods, Eclipse can control the Energy Saver features of the MacOS. You can set how long you'd like an idle machine to wait before automatic monitor deactivation, hard drive spindown, and computer shutdown. All of these protective measures can reduce physical wear on system components, and can result in increased cost savings through reduced energy bills. With apologies to a certain brewer, our slogan is “Eclipse: Less filling, saves great.” About this Manual This manual assumes that you are familiar with the Macintosh and its basic operation. If you need help using the mouse, choosing from menus, or working in the Finder, please consult the Macintosh User’s Guide that came with your Macintosh, or the online Apple Guide found under the Balloon Help menu. If you don’t like to read manuals... Go directly to Chapter 3, Getting Started. This chapter briefly describes how to get Eclipse up and running in just a few minutes. The details of the product are described in the remainder of the documentation. If you prefer step-by-step instructions... Chapters 4 through 9 provide a detailed …