[squeak-dev] Screensaver in Squeak?
Jens Moenig
jens at moenig.org
Tue May 13 10:43:15 UTC 2008
Hi Boingo,
I have created a mechanism to use Scratch-projects as screensavers for
Windows as part of my "Chirp" project (http:chirp.scratchr.org/blog). The
source code is part of the download.
Since Scratch is basically a Squeak image you can canibalize this idea for
you own screensavers. This is how it would work:
1) create a Squeak app (image) and lock it down in fullscreen mode
2) - optional, makes life easier - create an installer that'll save the
whereabouts of your image in the windows registry
2) write a little *.src calling the squeak vm with your customized image (a
*.scr is just an exe, you should make sure that only a single instance can
run at a time), and copy it to the windows directory.
Even easier would be to just rename the vm (squeak.exe) to myScreenSaver.scr
(myScreenSaver.image) being your customized squeak image....
Cheers,
Jens
Boingo wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was wondering if it is possible to generate a screensaver in Squeak,
> for any OS I guess. Ideally, no menu/close box/window border/etc
> would be viewable, but I could settle for it being there if I had to.
> The intent is to create an animation in Squeak that would be started
> and displayed when the screensaver was called for. Has anyone does
> this or something close?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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