Re: Windows 95/NT Screen Saver in Euphoria
At the risk of starting a flame war,
Ralf wrote in reply to my comments regarding screensavers...
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>>Bind it with Bindw only (Can't make a DOS program a screen saver).
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> Yes, you can.. do you think windows cares that your program is dos or
>windows based, it just launches it.
> I have never tried this, but it must work..
Yes, I think windows DOES care. I have tried this and it does not work.
Try it before posting next.
(Please prove me wrong !)
>>How do you make the screen saver properly compliant with mouse and keyboard
>>movement, hot spots, previews (W95) etc. All non-trivial stuff.
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> I have never tried to make this, but windows delivers no support for
>this at all, so you'll have to make a program that will abort () when the
>mouse moves, or when a key is hit. In dos this would be fairly easy..
Sure, from Euphoria windows ? No mouse support routines like Dos.
(Get_mouse is DOS32 only - page 26 Library).
>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.
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> Yes, but you can give your full-screen screensaver the focus, and then
>the console window will be hidden, when your program looses focus, then your
>program will simply abort, and the console window will dissapear, I really
>don't think this would be a problem.
Good point, worth persuing. I'll try something like this. (inelegant though)
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> BTW You could also bind it with bind (if it's dos based, but the pif of
>the file should make sure, that no window-key tricks are allowed
>(ctrl+escape, etc.)
> If pifs don't work, there are same ASM hackers that will turn it off
>(for as long as your program runs)
What on earth are same ASM Hackers ?
>>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.
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> Yes, many years ago, in visual basic.
> It worked the same way, only I'm not 100% sure what command line options
>will be set, when the user needs to configure the screensaver..
> (BTW It worked this way with win311, but windows is backwards
>compatible)
I think you mean, No not in Euphoria ever. Sure VB Screensavers work, as do
C screensavers and many other languages. I would like to see an Euphorian
Screensaver though.
>>Has anyone actually had any luck. Can anyone post an example if I am wrong.
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> Maybe in a day or two, i'll fix something up. This really isn't so hard.
Please do. I think it's harder than you claim.
Regard
Richard Farnsworth
Richard at mits.com.au might work.
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