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How do I control the screensaver name shown in the drop down list?

Answer 1

+3 A:

This thread has the answer:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winforms/thread/35ea8aeb-e729-474c-b6d2-544fc3c48d8d

Adam Ruth 2010-02-08 00:33:49

Awesome man, that did it for me. Not sure why I couldn't find this in Google :-)

Cory Charlton 2010-02-08 00:48:53

Answer 2

+2 A:

The screensaver name is pulled from native resources of the .scr file. so you would need to add an unmanaged resource. and use string ID 1 for the name.

The .rc file would look like this

STRINGTABLE
BEGIN
   1 "My Screensaver"
END

John Knoeller 2010-02-08 00:43:24

I just read the link posted by other answer, and noticed the steps were all assuming an IDE. So I'm glad to see it isn't totally impossible to do by hand. But how does the project know to use the resource as the title? Is that the only possible thing String Tables can be used for?

Anthony 2010-02-08 00:48:01

The project has absolutely no idea that it needs to be used as the title - in fact, it doesn't even know what the "title" is. All it knows is "hey, this guy wants a native resource embedded in the application". The screensaver dialogue then pulls out the first string resource and uses that as the "title" of the screensaver.

Anon. 2010-02-08 00:50:02

I don't think it's the project that is using it so much as the screen saver dialog is looking in the executable, for a string table that contains a row with no id and the value of 1.

Cory Charlton 2010-02-08 00:50:40

Yes, the dialog is making the assumption that string id 1 (or possibly the first string) is the title. It's a pretty brain-damaged design, but .scr files go back all the way to windows 3.x so what can you do?

John Knoeller 2010-02-08 00:54:51

+1 for the great info. That was much less painful than I expected. Even adding my pretty icon back was a breeze :-)

Cory Charlton 2010-02-08 00:58:25

@Cory: I've always felt it's easier to edit the .rc file with a text editor than to use the IDE - It annoys the heck out of me that double clicking on .rc files causes the IDE to _compile_ them rather than just opening up the text file <sigh>

John Knoeller 2010-02-08 01:02:15

@Anthony: No stringtables are used for many things, the dialog is apparently just _assuming_ that the first string is the title, just like Windows assumes that it should use the first Icon as your application icon. it's the way things were done back in the Win3x days.

John Knoeller 2010-02-08 01:50:19

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