Introduction
Have you ever been jealous on artists and home decorators who create the most beautiful color combinations? Here is a program to assist you in doing the same!. Mondriaan shows color panes, that keep changing colors. Fine compination can be saved.
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It runs under Windows 95/98/00/NT/XP. Mondriaan can be freely
downloaded.
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Mondriaan is bi-lingual. The help pages too. If you are using a Dutch version of Windows,
then Mondriaan is Dutch too. Otherwise Mondriaan speaks English.
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Mondriaan hase a context sensitive help system.
Description
Mondriaan shows an adjustable number of color panes. These panes change color at adjustable intervals. With Mondriaan you can:
- Configure the time interval between two color combinations.
- Save beautiful combinations for later use.
- Put Mondriaan into the Full Screen mode.
- Freeze the current color combination.
- Continue varying colors.
- Hide the title bar so only the color panes will be visible.
On the title bar are a number of buttons. From left to right they are:
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Pause (F4)
= Continue (F5)
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Read Pattern (F6)
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Save Pattern (F7)
= Configuration (F8)
= Help
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Quit (F10)
Pause
Click the "Pause" button to enter the Pause mode en freeze the current color pattern.
Continue
After reading a saved pattern Mondriaan is in the Pause mode. Click the "Coninue" buton to continue changing colors.
Read Pattern
Click the "Read Pattern" button to read a saved pattern. So you can study your finest color combinations.
Save Pattern
Click the "Save Pattern" button to save the current pattern. Later on you can read the saved pattern for a closer look.
Configuration
Click the "Configuration" button to enter the Configuration Window.
In this window you can adjust:
- "Number of Panes horizontal"; This is the number of panes in horizontal direction.
- "Number of Panes vertical"; This is the number of panes in vertical direction.
- "Time Interval"; This is the amount of time between two color changes.
- "Screen"; Check "Hide Title Bar" to hide the title bar and see only the color panes.
- "Refresh"; Check "One Pane" to change the colors pane by pane.
- "Refreshing"; Check "Gradually" in the "One Pane" mode to to gradually change the color
of a pane from the current color to the next one.
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"Percentage". Enter 100 to obtain the slowest change of color.
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"Automatic Update". Check "Automatic Updates On" to let Mondriaan check
if a new version is available.
Information
Click the "Help" button for the Information Menu.
This menu has three items:
"Help" - Click this item for the Help Pages
"Help Index" - Click this item, for the Help Index.
"About" - Click this item for information about the program and the author.
Click the "Author" button for the address data of the Author of the program.
Quit
Click the "Quit" button to close the program. The configuration will be saved.
Conclusion
Mondriaan freely available. Remarks, bugs or suggestions for improvement
are welcome by
e-mail. Give the program
to your friends!
Downloading
Download the program now.
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Name: Mondriaan
- Version:
1.10a
- Release date:
2012-01-20
- Download name:
mondriaan110.exe
- Download size:
536 kB
You can try the program without any risc; It can be easily removed again
from your computer ("Start | Configuration Screen | Software | Mondriaan"
=> Click the button "Remove").
Download the program as follows:
First method (download and install):
- Click Download and check "Open".
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Click "OK" and the download starts. After downloading the program will
be installed on your computer. Follow the directions in the installation
program.
Second method: (download and save)
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Click Download and check "Save as...".
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Enter e.g. "c:\Temp" as destination.
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Click "OK" and downloading starts. The file "
mondriaan110.exe" wil now be saved to the
directory "c:\Temp"
Installation
If you used the second way the pogram has to be
installed now. Installing the program is very simple too. Assuming the
downloaded file has been saved in "c:\Temp" then:
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Click "Start | Execute".
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Enter: "c:\Temp\
mondriaan110.exe".
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Click OK.
Now follow the directions in the setup program to install Mondriaan on your computer.