ScreenSavers

Um, you need to program it as a screen saver from the begining. Check MSDN for the specifics on that and see if you can find any of the sample code in the source directories. Thats about all the help that I can offer you

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unfortunately imo what msdn provides as far as screensavers go is almost useless... check out this page here. If link dosnt work, heres the url: http://www.wischik.com/scr/howtoscr.html

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Thank you both very much.

Hiya

What you need to do is to make sure that only one instance of your exe can be run. I use the following code to do that:
//RunOnce only
HANDLE hMutex = CreateMutex (NULL, TRUE, argv[0]);
if (GetLastError() == ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS)
{
CloseHandle(hMutex);
exit(0);
}

Then you need to pickup the commandline parameters windows uses when executing your exe (of course renamed to scr, but it''s the same).
/c - Show the Settings dialog box, modal to the foreground window.
/p - Preview Screen Saver as child of window .
/s - Run the Screen Saver.
/a - Change password, modal to window .

I have yet found out how to do preview, password and settings. However my screensaver don''t need them so no point in wasting time for such a luxury problem..
Settings should be easy.. i think =)

Søren Olesen
Denmark

Ups sorry didn''t check out link (http://www.wischik.com/scr/howtoscr.html)...

One very easy way to do it is rename yourprog.exe to yourprog.scr and boom! You''re done.

However, you should really do it the proper way using the screen saver library. You can read about it in the msdn docs.

Hiya.

I''ve tried that... and boom! my system resources just dropped rapidly.. (windows starts multiply instances of the screensaver)
You need to be sure that only one instance of your program is allowed..

Søren Olesen
Denmark

I highly recommend this link! I''m using his source to build my screen saver in OpenGL and it''s the best I''ve seen so far. It''s German but that don''t matter. I got mine compileing and running so if you need more help let me know.

http://members.aol.com/vjfrost/ss/wirecube.zip

I''ve written a screensaver skeleton on my page: http://www.cornflakezone.com, replace the drawing code with your own and you''re done. Enjoy,
fs

mainflake@cornflakezone.com
http://www.cornflakezone.com