Saver Starter 1.5 Readme 
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Homepage: http://www.brianapps.net/saverstarter
Author: Brian Apps
Email: mail@brianapps.net


What is Saver Starter?

Saver Starter is a small freeware program that:

- Allows a screen saver to be started by moving the mouse over a corner of the
  screen.

- Prevents a screen saver from starting when the mouse is in a corner of a 
  screen.

- Starts the current screen saver quickly.

- Gives easy access to the screen saver configuration settings.


Install

Saver Starter has no automatic install process.  The zip archive contains two
files, SaverStarter.exe and readme.txt (this file).  To start the program 
simply run SaverStarter.exe.  You might like to add Saver Starter to your 
start-up group, that way Saver Starter will be available every time you start
Windows.


Using Saver Starter

When you start Saver Starter an icon will appear in the system tray.  This icon
has a thin border and a red, green or yellow coloured dot.  The icon represents
a traffic light:

- Amber means Saver Starter is in its default state and is doing nothing.

- Red means Saver Starter has disabled the current screen saver.  This icon is
  shown when the mouse is in a corner of the screen marked as a cold-spot.

- Green means Saver Starter is about to activate the current screen saver.
  This icon is shown when the mouse is in a corner of the screen marked as a 
  hot-spot.  The Green light is shown for two seconds by default (can be
  changed from the configuration dialog) after which time the saver is started.
  If the mouse is moved out of the hot spot before the saver starts then Saver
  Starter returns to the Amber state.
  
By default Saver Starter has a hot-spot in the top-left corner of the screen 
and has no cold-spots defined, to change these settings see the section on 
Configuring Hot-Spots.


Context Menu Features

Right clicking the icon brings up the Saver Starter popup menu, which contains
the following items:

-  Start Screen Saver.  This item does just that, it starts the current screen
   saver.  The current screen saver can also be started by double clicking the
   Saver Starter icon.

-  Screen Saver Properties.  This item brings up the display settings control
   panel applet with the screen saver tab selected.

-  Configure Current Saver.  This item brings up the current screen saver
   configuration dialog. This action is a short-cut for the bringing up the 
   screen saver display settings dialog, and clicking the Settings button.

-  Modify Hot Spots.  This item allows Saver Starter's hot-spot behavior and 
   activation timeout to be modified. 

-  About and Exit.  Pretty obvious what these items do.


Configuring Hot Spots

The Modify Hotspots Dialog allows you to configure Saver Starter's hot-spots
and cold-spots.

In the dialog four check boxes are placed in the four corners of a frame that
represents the screen.  Clicking the mouse in a  box cycles it through its 
three states: empty, red tick, and blue cross.  As the dialog describes, a 
red tick represents a hot-spot, a blue cross a cold-spot and an empty box means
Saver Starter performs no special handling when the mouse is in that corner of
the screen.


History

Nov 1996, V1.0 & V1.1. Freeware tool that was bundled as part of the main
Juggle Saver installation.

Jan 1997, V1.2. Icons reworked and posted as a separate download.

Sept 2001, V1.4. (V1.3 was never publically released) Mods to handle changes to
system colours and reformatted to include links to the JuggleSaver domain.

Oct 2004, V1.5. Fix to issue where screen saver would be falsely activated when
the security panel is shown in XP sp2.  Add ability to specify activation
timeout.  Fix disappearing tray icons when explorer shell restarts.


Contact

If you've any bug reports, suggestions or feedback send me an email at 
mail@brianapps.net.  I'm always pleased to receive any sort of feedback.

If you really like Saver Starter, you may like to check out some of my other 
programs or even download Juggle Saver (http://www.jugglesaver.co.uk).

