i know this has been asked before but i cant find it in my searches , sooooo how do i make a published gs exe into a screensaver that windows see's as a screensaver , you know so that i can see it in windows list of screensavers and see a preview of in that little window?

rename exe to scr and place it to windows or windows\system folder. to make preview window and settings dialog you must write your application using some rules. look, for example, there http://www.wischik.com/scr/resources.html or go to MSDN

thanks , ill check that out.

Hello Lion_TS!

I tried what you mentioned in your post. I made a level. I built it (called screensaver.wed) and published it by checking both the exe and wrs boxes. That gave me a folder containing the following four files: screensaver.exe, acknex.dll, screensaver.wrs and palette.

Then, following the instructions of the manual, I changed the name of the .exe file to screensaver.scr. Then I copied the four files in the C:\Windows directory.

When I right click on my desktop, and look up the list of available screensavers, I do not see my files there and I can't select my level as screensaver. Also, when the PC is idle, my level is not launched as screensaver.

Can you tell me what I am doing wrong, or if there is a tutorial I could look up.

Many thanks!

Regards,
Thomas

PS: I have A7.7 Pro on win XP

A real screensaver which Windows can launch by itself when the PC is idle...

Anybody?

Thanks,
Thomas

That's easy.

As mentioned by some others it's a exe-file renamed to *.scr
Copy this file (and the related) in the \windows\system32 directory.
Then you can select it from the windows screensave control panel.

A screensaver has options (called from the "windows screensaver dialog")

/a Passwort [ctrl panel: password]
/c Konfiguartion [ctrl panel: setup]
/p window handle for preview (null for desctop) [ctrl panel: preview]

You should react on these paramters (3DGS: command_str) within your screensaver.
Commonly a screensaver quits by a key or a mouse move (- but what's common).
but if not you should inform the user e.g. to press ESC to quit the screensaver

mercuryus

Try putting the scr file into the Windows\System32 folder.

Hi Mercuryus and Jaknine,

Many thanks for helping out.

I'm looking at it now. Still not seeing my level in the list of screensavers so far. One remark though:

When I try to launch mysaver.scr (my former .exe file) from the desktop, the level launches.

When I do it from the version in the windows/system32/ folder (where I have copy/pasted acknex.dll and myscreen.wrs), I get an error messages saying that it can't load a certain cygwin1.dll.

What does that mean (I am not running on LINUX, but Win XP Pro)? Is that normal? Should I just download it from the ent and paste it in that system32 folder?

Thanks!

Thomas

I just tried the same files on another computer: the level in system32 takes almost 15 seconds to compile, but it does start and runs correctly.

I however still do not see any file named mysaver[...] in the screensaver menu.

Any thoughts? Should I compile the file in a special way (an option somewhere that I have never used), or publish it some other way (I am checking the exe and wrs boxes)?

Thanks in advance...

Thomas