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Re: Windows 95/NT Screen Saver in Euphoria

• Posted by Richard Farnsworth <MRF0044%ROUGH at BIZET.MITS.COM.AU> Jan 02, 1998
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Somebody wrote:
>>
>>Does anybody know where to find information about how to write a
>>Screen-Saver program in Euphoria?.
>>Is any special requirement?. I've seen that screen savers under Windows are
>>conatained in files ".SCR".
>>Where can I find information of that kind of special programs?.
>>Any help will be very welcome.
>>

and Ralf N replied

>A screen-saver..
>
>Bind your program to an .exe
>Rename it to a .scr and copy it to your system directory.
>It will now show up as a screen saver.
>When you choose Configure in the cotrol panel, your program is started with
>the '/c' option (as the command line)
>When the screensaver needs to be start, it starts up with '/s'
>
>Ralf

Yes, but.....

Bind it with Bindw only (Can't make a DOS program a screen saver).
How do you make the screen saver properly compliant with mouse and keyboard
movement, hot spots, previews (W95) etc. All non-trivial stuff.

And (the killer as far as I'm concerned. How do you get rid of the console
window. As far as I see in the Alpha release ( page 2 platform.doc) the WIN32
Euphoria programs will ALWAYS have a console window associated with it.

Ralf, did you actually try to make a screen saver. Sure you can run a bound
program from the screen saver config panel. This is NOT a screen saver.

Has anyone actually had any luck. Can anyone post an example if I am wrong.


Regards,

Richard Farnsworth

Richard at MITS.COM.AU
(Mail may bounce - my company is in the process of changing it's mail
servers)

P.S. Check out Francis Bussiere's EW32 DLL wrappers for Euphoria. This makes
windows programming possible and fun.