Re: Exotica 1.7 Screen Saver
> I've made a graphics program using ExoticaX and want to make it a
> screen saver. I've renamed it as *.scr and it works on test, but...
> when windows tries running the program, Exotica returns the following
> error. "The DLL's filename must not be changed!, Please rename it back
> to Exotica_7.dll to be able to use it. Thankyou" I haven't changed its
> name and it is in the same directory as the program. I've even tried
> this by using a shell to run it and name that program as a scr file,
> but the same thing happens. (Both are made exes with bindw)
> I assume windows my be just being itself, and does something wierd to
> its screen saver files.
> exesbindw
> weird
> Does anyone know how to fixs this! :)
> fix
> Dan McGrath
Could be that windows sets the working directory differently for
screensavers. Try opening the dll using it's full path (eg:
c:\programs\screensaver\Exotica_7.dll). If that works then you can use
command_line() to get the screensaver's location and use that to load
the dll...
Thomas Parslow (PatRat)
E-Mail/Jabber: tom at almostobsolete.net
ICQ: 26359483
|
Not Categorized, Please Help
|
|
