An old screen saver resurrected!
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 by jamespaulp | Discussion: Customization Software
This is a screen saver I wrote in 1999 using Win32 API's in VC++.
It is a picture slide show + blank screen + scrolling marquee screen saver. Original size compiled in Visual Studio 97 (?) was about 75KB (!). I re-compiled this in VC 6.0 and the size now is 144KB. If I compile this in Visual Studio 2005, it looses visual style because of comctl32 reference. So, I will keep it in VS 6.0 for now.
The original name was different. I changed it because I found that the name was already being used by another screen saver from a company.
When the screen saver is running, mouse movement will not exit the screen saver. You have to click on the screen or press any key. If you click on the small image at the bottom right, it will open up default browser to my blog. When I wrote this first, it was a novelty.
You can download it from here. Provided as is. I have tested it in Windows XP 32 bit and 64 bit edition. Clicking on the small image may have an error on XP 64.
It is a picture slide show + blank screen + scrolling marquee screen saver. Original size compiled in Visual Studio 97 (?) was about 75KB (!). I re-compiled this in VC 6.0 and the size now is 144KB. If I compile this in Visual Studio 2005, it looses visual style because of comctl32 reference. So, I will keep it in VS 6.0 for now.
The original name was different. I changed it because I found that the name was already being used by another screen saver from a company.
When the screen saver is running, mouse movement will not exit the screen saver. You have to click on the screen or press any key. If you click on the small image at the bottom right, it will open up default browser to my blog. When I wrote this first, it was a novelty.
You can download it from here. Provided as is. I have tested it in Windows XP 32 bit and 64 bit edition. Clicking on the small image may have an error on XP 64.
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