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AnubisProgrammer

Wed Jun 21, 2006 1:45 pm


screen saver

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Alright, I have a nifty little program, it displays a matrix type thing, all the scrolling letters/numbers/symbols.  It looks really cool and I think it would make a good screensaver.  I don't suppose there's any way to convert the .exe into a screen saver?  It's a win32 console app at the moment.


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md

Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:33 pm



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You can't just go fro mexe to screensaver. There is additional code required to interact with windows (window message intercepting and thigns). Then all you need to do is change the extention to make it a screensaver. I know there are tutorials out there, as I've done it before.


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AnubisProgrammer

Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:32 pm



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So there's just extra code I need to add to make it a screensaver from a win32 console app?  I'll check that out then, thanks.


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bugzpodder

Tue Jul 18, 2006 8:06 pm



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actually, i think all you need to do is rename the .exe file into .scr file.  im sure if u google it up you'll find something.


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md

Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:53 pm



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you *can* do that; however it won't do the same things as a windows screensaver is supposed to do. Things like previewing in the little monitor window need extra code. Plus windows is dumb. it keeps trying to invoke the screensaver even if it's running, therefor you need to intercept hte messages so that windows doesn't start your screensaver more then once. 

Windows is dumb.