BlitMax Spirals Screensaver
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| OK, I got bored last night and did a quick screensaver using my 250byte logo entry. It turned out pretty sweet- and the bigger the screen you have the better. It will adjust itself to run on your machine- and keeps adding new spirals until there's no CPU cycles or room on screen left. ANyway, here's the link: http://damientsturdy.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/spiralsaver.scr and screenies:   |
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| Does not work. For me atleast! |
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| Grah... Any symptoms? |
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| Works here. Very nice. |
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| Very pretty. Since you must be redrawing everything on each flip, how about making the centres move around? |
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| Just blinks and goes back to my desktop. WinXP SP2 - GF-FX5200 |
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| PGF, Already done it! I'll update later- i want to try to fix Tri's problem before I do so :) |
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| Tri, does this do the same? http://danjeruz.servegame.com/spiralsaver.exe |
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| The .scr did not work for me, and the .exe did. It's really nice... but of course, the .exe doesn't have screensaver behavior. :) |
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| Raph... Rename it ;) and let me know how it goes. Can you all let me know if the screensaver works, and also if the preview works? |
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| Wow. well yours is better than my old spiral screensaver http://www.curtastic.com/star/star.htm |
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| OMG, this blew up my 'puter! I shall sue! :P Actually, as Cyg already knows, this ran fine on my rig-o-doom, so it *should* be running fine on any other PC. :) |
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| I updated the download, grab it again. I added movement and fixed a couple of things that might have caused problems. Lemme know if it stops or starts working :) |
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| Excellent. |
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| I like this. :) How did you make it in to a screensaver? Is it as simple as creating a Max exe and renaming to .scr? |
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| This is cool, just spotted it. |
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| Cygnus, a fresh download of the .scr version did the trick! What I meant before: When I used the .exe version, it required hitting ESC to get out of the screensaver, instead of just using the mouse. :) Sorry for not being clear. |
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| Amon, I used a framework found here on the forums, it was broken, I updated it... Basically, you use AppArgs[] and check for "/C" (config) "/S" (start?) and "/P" (Preview). When Preview is called, the preview window HWND is in appargs[2] which is incredibly handy because you can then attach the max window to it! :) (Check the preview window- the download as it is now works properly ;) ) In preview mode you need to check to see if the screensaver preview window is still loaded, and if not, exit. I might untangle my code from it and post the fixed version here but it now requires MaxGUI. :) I owe the coder of the original screensaver framework that much really! :) |
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| The new exe one works. Sorry for my late answer |
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| Good to hear Tri- did you redownload the original too? (I updated the file) |
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| Still no luck with the scr file |
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| Hmmm.I have no idea why its not working. Sounds like it thinks you moved your mouse immediately. |
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| Curtastic, Cool- thats the same way these spirals work :) |
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| Tried without using my mouse(just keyboard) and get the same result. Could be its my machine thats fu.... up. |
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| @Amon - A simple BMax screensaver framework can be found HERE... Nice one Cygnus but I'm getting the 'closing instantly' thing too. Dunno if it's the same issue, but I clear the event queue in the above framework to stop this. |
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| So after trying it overnight, I get the "close instantly" thing about 95% of the time. :( |
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| ¬.¬ Thanks guys. Could you all download again and try this next version? I'd like to get this resolved. I just added code to clear events, and also added a "Delay 500" in there to give stuff time to init. |
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| Same result with the scr file. Still not working |
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| I grabbed the new .scr file from the top, and it still exits instantly. It does run in the preview window, but if I hit the preview button, the screen goes black, then it returns to the desktop. I tried running it directly, with the same result. |
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| OK, thanks guys- Right, I'll get the source out later! Lets see if we can bust this one open!! |
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