From all of us at MJT we wish you season’s greetings and a wonderful start to 2019.

Here’s a fun little script with a message from Macro Scheduler. Open Macro Scheduler (download the trial if you don’t already have it), click New to create a new macro and paste this code in and hit run.

OnEvent>key_down,VK27,0,Quit
SRT>Quit
  SetControlText>Sparkler,TEdit,1,Complete
  WaitWindowClosed>Sparkler
  Wait>1
  DeleteFile>%temp_dir%\Sparkler.scp
  Exit>0
END>Quit
 
DeleteFile>%temp_dir%\Sparkler.scp
LabelToVar>SparkleScript,vScrData
WriteLn>%temp_dir%\Sparkler.scp,wres,vScrData
 
Dialog>Dialog1
object Dialog1: TForm
  BorderStyle = bsNone
  Caption = 'Happy Holidays'
  ClientHeight = 330
  ClientWidth = 780
  Color = 111111
  Position = poScreenCenter
  object Panel3: TPanel
    Left = 0
    Top = 0
    Width = 780
    Height = 330
    BevelEdges = []
    BevelOuter = bvNone
    Caption = 'And a Happy New Year'
    Color = 111111
    Font.Charset = ANSI_CHARSET
    Font.Color = clRed
    Font.Height = -80
    Font.Name = 'Vladimir Script'
    Font.Style = []
    ParentFont = False
    Visible = False
  end
  object Panel2: TPanel
    Left = 0
    Top = 0
    Width = 780
    Height = 330
    BevelEdges = []
    BevelOuter = bvNone
    Caption = 'Merry Christmas'
    Color = 111111
    Font.Charset = ANSI_CHARSET
    Font.Color = clRed
    Font.Height = -96
    Font.Name = 'Old English Text MT'
    Font.Style = []
    ParentFont = False
  end
  object Panel1: TPanel
    Left = 0
    Top = 0
    Width = 780
    Height = 330
    BevelEdges = []
    BevelOuter = bvNone
    Caption = ''
    Color = 111111
  end
end
EndDialog>Dialog1
 
Show>Dialog1
 
ExecuteFile>%temp_dir%\Sparkler.scp
 
Let>WIN_USEHANDLE=1
  GetWindowPos>Dialog1.handle,Dia1X,Dia1Y
Let>WIN_USEHANDLE=0
Add>Dia1Y,165
Let>StartY=Dia1Y
Let>YFlag=1
Wait>0.3
 
Let>kk=0
Repeat>kk
  Add>kk,4
  If>Dia1Y>{%StartY%+20}
    Let>YFlag=0
  EndIf
  If>Dia1Y<{%StartY%-20}
    Let>YFlag=1
  EndIf
  Add>Dia1X,4
  If>YFlag=1
    Add>Dia1Y,8
  Else
    Sub>Dia1Y,8
  EndIf
  Wait>0.025
  If>Dia1X>40
    SetControlText>Sparkler,TEdit,1,%Dia1X%;%Dia1Y%
  EndIf
  SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,Panel1,Left,kk
Until>kk>750
 
Timer>Begin
 
GetWindowPos>Sparkler,SparkX,SparkY
 
Label>Loop
If>{%Dia1X%<%SparkX%+150}
  Add>Dia1X,1
EndIf
If>Dia1Y>StartY
  Sub>Dia1Y,1
EndIf
If>Dia1YDia1Y,1
EndIf
SetControlText>Sparkler,TEdit,1,%Dia1X%;%Dia1Y%
Wait>0.01
Timer>Stop
If>{%Stop%-%Begin%>5000}
  GoSub>Fade
EndIf
Goto>Loop
 
SRT>Fade
  SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,,AlphaBlend,True
  Let>Fader=255
  Repeat>Fader
    Sub>Fader,5
    SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,,AlphaBlendValue,Fader
    Wait>0.1
  Until>Fader<0
  Let>Fader=255
  SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,Panel3,Visible,True
  SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,Panel2,Visible,False
  SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,,AlphaBlendValue,Fader
  Wait>3
  Timer>Begin
  GetScreenRes>ScreenX,ScreenY
  While>{%Stop%-%Begin%<10000}
    Timer>Stop
    Random>100,Pct
    Add>pct,1
    Let>Dia1X={round(%ScreenX%*(%pct%/100))}
    Random>100,Pct
    Add>pct,1
    Let>Dia1Y={round(%ScreenY%*(%pct%/100))}
    SetControlText>Sparkler,TEdit,1,%Dia1X%;%Dia1Y%
    Sub>Fader,5
    SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,,AlphaBlendValue,Fader
    Wait>0.2
  EndWhile
  SetControlText>Sparkler,TEdit,1,Complete
  WaitWindowClosed>Sparkler
  Wait>1
  DeleteFile>%temp_dir%\Sparkler.scp
   
  Exit>0
END>Fade
 
/*
SparkleScript:
Let>size=200
 
OnEvent>key_down,vk27,0,Quit
 
SRT>Quit
  Exit>0
END>Quit
 
Dialog>Dialog2
object Dialog2: TForm
  BorderStyle = bsNone
  Caption = 'Sparkler'
  Color = 1
  TransparentColor = True
  TransparentColorValue = 1
  object Panel1: TPanel
    Left = 0
    Top = 0
    BevelOuter = bvNone
    Caption = 'Panel1'
    Color = 1
    TabOrder = 0
  end
  object Edit1: TEdit
    Text = '-1000;-1000'
    Visible = False
  end
end
EndDialog>Dialog2
 
Let>WIN_USEHANDLE=1
  MoveWindow>Dialog2.handle,-1000,-1000
Let>WIN_USEHANDLE=0
AddDialogHandler>Dialog2,,OnClose,Quit
SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,,ClientHeight,size
SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,,ClientWidth,size
SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,Panel1,Height,size
SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,Panel1,Width,size
SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,,AlphaBlend,True
SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,,AlphaBlendValue,0
Show>Dialog2
 
Let>halfSize={round(%size%/2)}
Let>85Per={round(%halfSize%*0.85)}
Let>15Per={round(%halfSize%*0.15)}
Let>ang2=0
Let>kk=0
SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,,AlphaBlendValue,255
Repeat>kk
  GetDialogProperty>Dialog2,Edit1,Text,vPos
  If>vPos=Complete
    Let>kk=-100
    Goto>Done
  EndIf
  Separate>vPos,;,Cur
  Sub>Cur_1,%halfSize%
  Sub>Cur_2,%halfSize%
  MoveWindow>Sparkler,Cur_1,Cur_2
  Add>kk,1
  Random>85Per,res
  Add>res,%15Per%
  Random>50,color
  Add>Color,45500
  Random>90,ang2
  Let>ang2=%ang2%*4
  GoSub>Angle,Dialog2,Panel1,ang2,%halfSize%,%halfSize%,%halfSize%,4,1
  Random>90,ang3
  Let>ang3=%ang3%*4
  GoSub>Angle,Dialog2,Panel1,ang3,%halfSize%,%halfSize%,%halfSize%,4,1
  Random>90,ang
  Let>ang=%ang%*4
  SetDialogProperty>Dialog2,Panel1,caption,space
  GoSub>Angle,Dialog2,Panel1,ang,%halfSize%,%halfSize%,res,2,color
  Label>Done
Until>kk<0
 
//Angle Usage:
//GoSub>Angle,Dialog,Object,Angle(in degrees),XStart,YStart,Length,PenSize,PenColor
//Requires Drawline subroutine
SRT>Angle
  Let>DegreeAngle=Angle_var_3
  Let>XStart=Angle_var_4
  Let>Ystart=Angle_var_5
  Let>LineLength=Angle_var_6
  Let>RadAngle={%DegreeAngle%*(pi/180)}
  Let>XEnd={trunc((cos(%RadAngle%))*%LineLength%)}
  Let>YEnd={trunc((sin(%RadAngle%))*%LineLength%)}
  Let>XEnd=%XEnd%+%XStart%
  Let>YEnd=%YEnd%+%YStart%
  GoSub>DrawLine,%Angle_var_1%.%Angle_var_2%.Handle,Angle_var_7,Angle_var_8,XStart,YStart,XEnd,YEnd
END>Angle
 
SRT>DrawLine
  LibFunc>user32,GetDC,HDC,%DrawLine_var_1%
  LibFunc>gdi32,CreatePen,Penres,0,%DrawLine_var_2%,%DrawLine_var_3%
  LibFunc>gdi32,SelectObject,SOPres,hdc,Penres
  Libfunc>gdi32,MoveToEx,mtres,HDC,%DrawLine_var_4%,%DrawLine_var_5%,0
  LibFunc>gdi32,LineTo,ltres,hdc,%DrawLine_var_6%,%DrawLine_var_7%
  LibFunc>gdi32,DeleteObject,DOres,Penres
  LibFunc>user32,ReleaseDC,RDCres,HDC_1,HDC
END>DrawLine
*/

Thanks to Dick Lockey for writing this little script (back in 2014).

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