WordScroller

Introduction

This is a bizzare piece of software. I didn't know this type of thing existed before today (ed. - 'today' being 08.30.06). Basically, you input a block of text, and it scrolls it back, word by word. This is a fairly simple implementation of the idea in C#. If you want to run it, you'll need the .NET runtime (maybe .NET 2, I'm not sure). The source is also provided, for your amusement and/or bug fixes. The source is licensed under the MIT license (see included file). Building it will probably require Visual Studio 2005, although you may be able to get away with Visual C# Express 2005.

This software should be considered beta. It may not work. It may bite your dog. It may even bite you. If it crashes in some spectacular way (or even not so spectacular way) drop me an email & I'll see what I can do. Or, better yet, fix it, send me the patch, and I'll post it here. The code is kind of a mess, but everything should be straight forward. Please contact me if you have any questions.

For those wondering why I did this (and you'd be wondering a very good thing), all of this started on MetaFilter, somewhere in the course of this AskMeFi question.

News

09.01.06 - Revision #1. Length of time variation based on punctuation and/or length of word, behavior fixes, higher limits on data sizes. Uses Times New Roman. Actually usable now, I hope.
08.30.06 - First version up.

Downloads

WordScroller Executable
WordScroller Source

j dot chakerian at stanford dot edu

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