I have developed a screen saver for MAC OS X. Screen saver plays flash files. Whene I run screen saver on display resolution higher than 1300 X 1000 then flash files play very jerky / laggy. When I run it in low resolution then files play fine.Even flash files are playing fine in desktop application. This problem is more on 10.6 Snow Leo...
How to set desktop wallpaper and screen-saver from cocoa app? ...
I'm trying to port a working Leopard screensaver to Snow Leopard but it's deactivating after about half a second. The screensaver seems to deactivate upon invoking play on a QTMovie. And it deactivates both upon -play on the QTMovie object itself, and -play:self on the QTMovieView. If I don't actually call -play on the object, the scree...
Is there a way to trigger an action when the Mac OS X screensaver activates or when it goes to sleep (preferably using cocoa)? ...
Is it possible to change the font-size of text in a gltext screensaver? I'm using gltext as implemented by Ubuntu 10.04/gnome. ...
Hi, After many years of Windows development in C/C++ i've decided to make a move to linux, and see if i can put together a simple screen saver. The code is an SDL based OpenGL particle engine affair, nothing too complex. I've got the code running ok as a stand-alone app, but i have been having some trouble finding out how to build ...
Hi, I am currently simply trying to build a simple screen saver in xcode 3.2 on osx 10.6.3 using an openGL view as described in this article: http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000089.php anyways even if I use the exact same code from the example all I see when testing the screen saver is a black screen. I looked in OSX Console if it t...
Which is the best programming language to use for creating a screensaver? I am thinking of creating a screensaver to showcase projects i have done before for self satisfaction. How should i go about it? Thanks ...
I am developing a small application for home use in Python. It is supposed to act as a slide show screensaver, but also as a primitive image manager. I have the slide show and image manager aspects covered (I am using Tkinter), but I haven't implemented the screensaver bit yet. So, starting the app from the command line works fine. I am...
I'm writing an application that uses Apple's kiosk mode. I would like to disable the screen saver, but the "ScreenSaverDefaults" class reports itself as being 32-bit only. I can change the build to be 32-bit only, but I would like to be able to support 64-bit architectures as well. Are there any other Frameworks that I should use to d...
Working on a screen saver for my wife, http://cchearts.codeplex.com/, and while I've been able to improve FPS on lower end machines the CPU usage still seems very high. Here's some numbers I ran from a few 5 minute sampling periods: ~60FPS 35% average CPU on Core 2 Duo T7500 @ 2.2GHz, 3GB ram, NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M (128MB), Vista [My ...
I asked Google how to write a Mac screensaver with c++ and he told me many things about how to create a simple screensaver in Objective-C which I would really like to avoid. Is there any way to do like under Windows systems where you can put an executable file as screensaver ? ...
Hi, we would like to build a screensaver that shows the desktop and the running applications but prevents user input by showing the login screen. The idea was to build a windows app with no window or a transparent window. However, as soon as the screensaver gets activated the desktop and all applications are hidden from the screen. Is ...
I am writing a screensaver in Delphi. I want is to display a TpresentationFrm on each monitor, fullscreen. To this end, I have written the following (incomplete) program: program ScrTemplate; uses ... {$R *.res} type TScreenSaverMode = (ssmConfig, ssmDisplay, ssmPreview, ssmPassword); function GetScreenSaverMode: TScreenSaverMod...
Hi, I have an WPF-Application with 3 different UserControls in the MainWindow and only one of these is visible at the time. It's like having 3 different pages and you able to switch from one page to another when you like it. First page is like a start-screen. Second is like the "general view". And the third page shows details. Switchin...
I have an application that sends predetermined messages when you tap a configurable hotkey or when you press a usb enabled HID. How can make program work with a locked screen without entering the password and logging back in? Basically, I need the program to execute the message through pressing the hotkey or clicking the usb device whil...
How can I create an iPhone in-app screen-saver? E.g: After 30 seconds the app hasn't been used a "screen-saver" starts. Where screen saver is a movie, a photo slideshow etc. ...
I have created a screen saver (C#, .NET 4.0 if that matters) but I have a couple of problems (on a more cosmetic level, though). These are probably easy to solve, but I have prettu much never used the Win32 API, so I can easily miss the obvious when it comes to that. Q1: I set up the small preview window like this: SetParent(Handle, h...
Should have been simple I would have thought. I want to force the PC to go into screen saver mode, and exit it when conditions I am checking in by D2006) app come true. It doesn't seem to work: if ScreenSaverExitRequested then begin SystemParametersInfoResult := SystemParametersInfo(SPI_GETSCREENSAVERRUNNING, 0, @S...
I have two forms, Form A and Form B. My Properties.Settings.Default has a timer object that when "ticked" needs to open Form B. What I would like to do is program the timer_tick(object sender, Eventargs e) event for the timer object that is in the solution's properties. Is this possible? If so how? The issue I am having is I don't know...