You Are Dreaming Software V0.0

Hi I made this silly little program I call YAD ( You Are Dreaming ) for Windows-XP.
when you run it, you will see the words "You are dreaming" moving across the screen, it's small and gray so you may not notice it at first, it should be near the top of the screen.
To change the Y location of it you can edit the yad.ini file, set a different location, and run the program again.
to stop the program, double click on it ( it's a little difficult to hit it because it's a transparent window, so you may need to double click several times ) or use the Task-Manager to close it.
The purpose of the thing is to subliminally put it into your head that you are dreaming.
you can get it at YAD
and the very messy source code at YAD Source

have fun!

Great idea. I love it. Thanks! I set 2 of them to run at start up. One going on top and one going on bottom. How hard would it be to make the text go up and down the screen line by line?

Cool I have it running right now. I wouldnt' be surprised if this works too. I seems logical. One thing though, It would be nice if you could change the words that move, as I think it would work even better to have it alternate messages, and then I could use it for other subconsious crap too. I now have three running at the top, middle, and bottom of the screen.

can you give an exact guide for how to change the location, i cat seem to do it unfortuantely
Imran

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can you give an exact guide for how to change the location, i cat seem to do it unfortuantely
Imran
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you open the ?.ini (can't remember the filename) thing that comes in the archive using notepad. There is a number there, which represents the # of pixels you are from the top of the screen. By changing that number you change the location (if you want it midscreen for example it will be 350-500 depending on your screen resolution).

Nice job.It should work pretty well cause i think human mind reacts better on visual notices.
How can we change the color?

Ok, since I see there is some interest in this, I'll make a version with some more options:
set the text
alternating text
set the speed
set the color
set the alpha transperency
option to make it go up and down the screen line by line.
If you have more ideas for features please post them, but keep it simple because I really don't have much time to work on this.

Maybe someone can help me, I had a problem when using slower speed, and color with more contrast ( like black or white ): the movement looks flickery. I tried to fix the flickering using double buffering and synch to the verticle retrace of the screen but it doesn't solve it.

Hi, I did a new version!
now instead of the yad.ini file, there is a yad.xml file.
you can edit it to change the Y location, the delay, the color in RGB, and set different texts.
you can add as many text as you like by adding more Text tags.
there is also a jumpingjack mode, which makes it go down line by line like in the old game jumping jack.
you can get it at:
http://www.sadglad.com/yad/yad.zip

have fun!

has anyone had any success with this yet?

i love this app, since i always sit at my computer, i do alot more realitychecks now, and thanks for making it so that you can alter the text as you want. i added a : "Do a realitycheck now, and dont f"#cking skip it.."

I love this program. Great job. I have them running at multiple heights with different messages. Genius idea.

I'munable to use it. Did I do something wrong?

What is happening when you run it?
Are you using Windows XP?

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Originally Posted by dodobird

What is happening when you run it?
Are you using Windows XP?
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SHould have been more specific...

Yes, I have windows XP

I downloaded it, run it (automatically used winzip) and it turned into a browser that had some html/text-like stuff on it, but no animation or whatever I'm supposed to see.

Ok I think I see what the problem is,
The zip file contain 2 files: yad.xml which is the configuration file
and yad.exe which is the program.
It's best that you extract both files into some folder, and then run the yad.exe file.
What probably happaned is that the winzip has ran the yad.xml file, which opened in the browser.

Small update: If you want to use non-Latin characters in the texts, it will work only if you save the xml file as Unicode ( using a program such as Notepad ) instead of as UTF-8 which is how it is saved now.

have fun!

Sry but i'm very slow with programming stuff.. this is what it says:

<!--
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
--&#62;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Main y="1" delay="30" r="220" g="220" b="220" jumpingjack="no">
<text value="You are dreaming"/>
<text value="This is a dream"/>
<text value="Is this a dream?"/>
</Main>

Please tell me what I have to do to make more of them and to change the position

thanks


Toaster :)

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Originally Posted by dodobird

Ok I think I see what the problem is,
The zip file contain 2 files: yad.xml which is the configuration file
and yad.exe which is the program.
It&#39;s best that you extract both files into some folder, and then run the yad.exe file.
What probably happaned is that the winzip has ran the yad.xml file, which opened in the browser.
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It wont let me open that folder, thats why I opened the second one.

Apparently it can&#39;t "delete" it when I to open it.

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Originally Posted by Lord

Please tell me what I have to do to make more of them and to change the position
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to change the position:
find the y="1" and change it the 1 to something else. the higher the value, the lower it is on the screen.

to add more texts, you need to copy lines that beging with <text and insert a different text inside the qoutes.

for example if you change the position to be a little lower and add 2 more lines, then the file will look like this:

&#60;&#33;--
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
--&#62;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Main y="50" delay="30" r="220" g="220" b="220" jumpingjack="no">
<text value="You are dreaming"/>
<text value="This is a dream"/>
<text value="Is this a dream?"/>
<text value="Do a reality check"/>
<text value="Did you do a reaility check?"/>
</Main>

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Originally Posted by Lord

It wont let me open that folder, thats why I opened the second one.

Apparently it can&#39;t "delete" it when I to open it.
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Ok, I uploaded the files already extracted.
now Kyhaar you need to download these 2 files:

http://www.sadglad.com/yad/yad.xml To download the yad.xml it&#39;s better to press the right mouse button on the link and press &#39;Save Target As&#39; ( if you are using Internet Explorer ) or &#39;Save Link As&#39; ( If you are using Firefox )
http://www.sadglad.com/yad/yad.exe

Download them to the same folder, and after both are downloaded, run the yad.exe file.

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Originally Posted by dodobird

to change the position:
find the y="1" and change it the 1 to something else. the higher the value, the lower it is on the screen.

to add more texts, you need to copy lines that beging with <text and insert a different text inside the qoutes.

for example if you change the position to be a little lower and add 2 more lines, then the file will look like this:

&#60;&#33;--
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
--&#62;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Main y="50" delay="30" r="220" g="220" b="220" jumpingjack="no">
<text value="You are dreaming"/>
<text value="This is a dream"/>
<text value="Is this a dream?"/>
<text value="Do a reality check"/>
<text value="Did you do a reaility check?"/>
</Main>
Ok, I uploaded the files already extracted.
now Kyhaar you need to download these 2 files:

http://www.sadglad.com/yad/yad.xml To download the yad.xml it&#39;s better to press the right mouse button on the link and press &#39;Save Target As&#39; ( if you are using Internet Explorer ) or &#39;Save Link As&#39; ( If you are using Firefox )
http://www.sadglad.com/yad/yad.exe

Download them to the same folder, and after both are downloaded, run the yad.exe file.
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thanks- it works now&#33;

Great program, I think this will provide some results, since I&#39;m looking at my computer screen so often.

One question though, how can I get multiple instances of text? For example, one at Y=300 and another at Y=500, or one in Jumping Jack mode?

I know I can run multiple instances of the program, but I&#39;d rather not if I didn&#39;t have to. Also, is there any way to make the "hr" task in the taskbar disappear?

Thanks in advance for the help, and thanks for making the program in the first place&#33;

UPDATE:

new version available ( as usual at http://www.sadglad.com/yad/yad.zip )
There are 2 new parameters:
&#39;alpha&#39; sets the transparency of the text ( for example 100 is normal, 50 is half transparent, 0 is invisible )
&#39;wait&#39; sets a wait time in seconds which comes each time the line reaches the end of the screen.

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Originally Posted by ZaktheOtaku

One question though, how can I get multiple instances of text? For example, one at Y=300 and another at Y=500, or one in Jumping Jack mode?

I know I can run multiple instances of the program, but I&#39;d rather not if I didn&#39;t have to. Also, is there any way to make the "hr" task in the taskbar disappear?
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For now you can&#39;t have multiple instances of text without running multiple instances of the program.
Sorry I don&#39;t know how to get rid of the "hr" thing in the task-bar ( I renamed it to YAD in the last version )

UPDATE:

Just uploaded a new version,
now it doesn&#39;t apear in the task-bar anymore.

http://www.sadglad.com/yad/yad.zip

Have fun&#33;

Awesome&#33; Thanks for all the work, and sorry to be so nitpicky :)

I don&#39;t have time to try out the new one just now, but I definitely will later.

Edit: Works like a charm&#33; :D

NOTE:

If you want to make the color white, don&#39;t use exactly 255,255,255 for the RGB, because then it will be invisible&#33;&#33;&#33;
Instead use a close value such as 255,255,254

I just set my own copy to a white color ( 255,255,254 ) and set the alpha to 50 and it looks really nice, though it&#39;s hard to see it on a light background.