Softwares Written by
Me
These softwares are all written by me at my leisure time. Some of them
are already very "old" (created 5 years ago). Feel free to download and
use them if any of them is useful for you. There are two categories: softwares
with English interface, and the ones with Simplified
Chinese interface.
The ones with English interface can run on any language version of Windows,
while the ones with Chinese interface have to run in a system with Chinese
(PRC) support.
Softwares with English interface
 Big
Timer
The big timer is born by my need of time control
in presentations. As a graduate student I have to give some presentations,
and I always have the need to ensure my presentation won't exceed
the time limit. Looking at my watch from time to time is not a good
idea while giving the presentation. So I use the dual display of
laptops: One desktop is sent to the projector to display the slides.
At the same time, the timer can run on the other desktop to prompt
the time I use.
A screen shot is on the right. You can find actually
it has the capability to stay on top of other windows, and can be
transparent. But such features can only function in Windows 2000 & XP.
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 Bricks
This small game was made when I was still a freshman
in Nankai University. I remember at that time an elder student in
my department told me,
"If you want to train your programming skills, make games. And start
with the small games like Russian bricks." Thus I followed his words
and made such a game. Actually this is one of the two games I ever
made. (The other is a Reversi game, which was one of the assignments
for my AI course. But it hardly has any nice interface or "advanced
intelligence", you can only get disappointed if I put it here for download.)
I did not use any graphics techniques in it, so
you can find it is slow enough to be easy.
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Softwares with Simplified Chinese interface
 Readme
Creater
This is actually a text editor. I intended to make a handy tool
for writing readme files, so gave the name "Readme Creater".
As for text editing, Readme Creater has the ability
to auto wrap. It is "hard" wrap by inserting line breaks in the file.
A nice featuer
about this auto wrap is Chinese support: it won't break a Chinese
character into to halves. It also has alignment adjustment by inserting
appropriate amount of space characters. Other features include numbered
list, itemized list, horizontal line (various styles), and customizable
"textbox" (use characters like "-" or "=" as
the borders). I have not seen any other text editors with horizontal
line or "textbox"
features yet.
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 Top Word
This is a simple word reciting helper. It can display all words
and their meanings one by one on the top of the other windows with
a transparent effect. And the transparency in it does NOT need Windows
2000 or XP support. However, the cost of this platform independence
is CPU consuming. And another potential problem is the frequent switch
of window focuses. You might be unable to stop it on half way if you
set the word interval to too small a value.
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 Tree Maker
This Tree Maker is used for creating dynamic HTML pages with tree
structure links that can fold and expand. I made it because I needed
it to create a web site with navigation tree. And it can also output
ASP code, but you have to incorporate it with your site by yourself.
I can say it was born earlier than any other dynamic HTML code generators.
Unfortunately I did not realize it at that time I did not spend any
time after it was like this.
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