Introducing WinPanic! Finally, the most invaluable tool for any _serious_ computer work is available for Windows. Not exactly a port from UNIX's xpanic, but with the same functionality, WinPanic will pop up on your screen at selectable intervals and tell you exactly what you need -- DON'T PANIC -- in large and friendly letters. These are the classical words that appear on the cover of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the brainchild of author Douglas Adams. Installation: Copy the file WINPANIC.EXE to your hard disk. (That's it!) NOTE: WinPanic utilizes Windows95 common controls. You'll need Windows95 build 437 or later -or- Windows NT 3.51BETA or later. I don't think Win32s will do the trick even with v1.3. As far as I know, Win32 can't handle multi-threading and I couldn't link with the single-threaded library. Configuration: When WinPanic appears on your screen, click your mouse somewhere in the window and it will turn into a dialog box where you can select the time intervals for which WinPanic will show up and disappear. The 'Up time' is 1-10 seconds, the 'Down-time' is 1-10 minutes. There is also a 'Kill' button that will quit WinPanic and a 'Help' button that will show a little message. Please note that this is just an afternoon's work and the first release. Don't nag about bugs or deficiencies - report them to me in an orderly way. I haven't tested WinPanic on any other machines - that's your job. WinPanic is freely distributable to anyone who might enjoy it as long as this file is included. I do not accept responsibility for anything that might happen to your system during it's use. Uppsala, Sweden, April 30, 1995, Ola Strandberg / Capabilities olas@bahnhof.se Repslagaregatan 17 S-753 33 Uppsala SWEDEN tel/fax int+46 18 244868 Credits: Robin Humble apparently created the original xpanic for X-Windows. I've stolen the arrays of points to draw the boo-man and the characters DON'T PANIC straight out of his code, the rest is my own work. WinPanic was realized using Visual C++ 2.1 and MFC 3.0.