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Obear
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Posted: 14th Feb 2004 20:12
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make use of the Setting tab in the Windows screen saver setup??

How can you make your own setttings criteria?
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zircher
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Posted: 14th Feb 2004 22:20
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Search the threads of this forum and the codebase for screen savers. You will find several well commented sets of source code you can use. You can also search the Microsoft Knowledge Base if you want to do it yourself.
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theDK
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hi ...
here is the template I use for creating a screen saver ... based on Kelebrindae code that is found in the codebase ...
when compiling I choose hidden and depending on the parameter passed to my screen saver I decide wither it should be visible or not ... thats to prevent flickering when you open the screen saver menu ...

P.S: zircher is right about searching ... I find almost all questions are already answered in these forums ... i hardly need to ask and most of the time its when I don't know what exactly I need to search for ... have fun pal ...
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Posted: 15th Feb 2004 16:38 Edited at: 15th Feb 2004 16:42
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Here's one with nice documentation on switches...

http://developer.thegamecreators.com/xt/view_code.php?i=2724

It uses the 'roll your own windows' method for settings and preview. Other methods use a win32 loader and call VB. The above method creates a single exec and you can load the media directly into the file. Very easy to deploy, but the windows are not 'true'. The second method requires two programs and the loader might need to be installed depending if it needs VB runtime DLLs, etc.
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