I’m looking for an app that will display random lines from from a .txt file in a pretty way – something like a screensaver, or a webpage which I can customise with my own text file. The text file will be around 20,000 lines long. I like to imagine the sentences swimming across the screen. Maybe the smaller ones float nearer the top, the longest ones crawling along the bottom. Or maybe not. I don’t really care as long as at any one time some of the lines are disappearing and some are appearing, so that you are visited with a cloud or swarm of a selection of all the possible lines at any one time.
I’m sure there must be such an app out there. I don’t really want to have to learn flash to getting it working and looking nice. Surely someone has done the work for me. Can anyone provide any pointers please?
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The XScreensaver program (http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/) has a “fortune” mode, where it can read from UNIX-style fortune databases and print random messages from those files. I don’t know what your requirements are. That program only runs on UNIX and OS X, and will probably require a fortune file rather than a text file. Still, it would probably do the job.