1. Re: Screen Saver

On Mon, 3 Jan 2000 14:14:36 EST, CHARN1407 at AOL.COM wrote:

<snip>
>For the windows control panel to recognise the screensaver, the program's
>module description string must begin with SCRNSAVE: (in uppercase).  So, if
>writing a Visual Basic screensaver, simply set the application title to
>something like "SCRNSAVE:Test Screensaver"
>
<snip>
>
>I guess you'll have to ask Rob how to set the program's module description
>string... I've wondered about this myself but hadn't got around to asking.
>Rob?

This may have been true for Windows 3.x but I've found that simply changing
the extension will allow Windows 9x and NT 4.0 to recognize and properly
execute the program.

-- Brian

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