Ogless Text

Here's a page from the extensive help system for Ogless. It is displayed as a help screen when running the program. To get the full picture Download Ogless and see the screen in its full context.

Some of the Ogless screen effects display text on the screen. You can select where you want the text to come from for these effects.

It can be from an arbitrary choice of Ogless's text sources or you can choose for it to come from an in-built poetry file; an Internet Newsfeed or a fixed text string.

If you select the newsfeed option the source must deliver text in RSS format. Ogless will then use this as the source of text when it is run. So if you choose a news web source the screen saver will display the text taken from the headlines on the screen.

The text string lets you display your own greeting on the screen. To make the text effects more interesting the text is split up into a word or two and then displayed, so you can enter quite a long text string here.

In some of the schemes (notably Countdown) one of the saver effects displays the time interval to an event. You can configure the time (for instance when you go to lunch or leave work) and the greeting text to be displayed when the event occurs.