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jake
oracle (screensaver not db!)
Dec 27th, 2005, 1:26am  
hello pR0[3550Rz,

i made a screensaver / app with p5 called "oracle"

http://structuredsound.net/oracle/

oracle is inspired by lovely screensavers / collective software dreaming platforms like the endless forest(1) and electric sheep(2), but it's much simpler.  it's really just a shared bulletin board.

it uses php to interact with a mysql db.  veryvery simple stuff but i am happy to share the php code if anyone would like to see it.

type,
jake

(1) = http://www.tale-of-tales.com/TheEndlessForest/

(2) = http://electricsheep.org/
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amb
Re: oracle (screensaver not db!)
Reply #1 - Mar 25th, 2006, 3:31am  
neat stuff jake, thanks for sharing...
could you describe the steps/files needed to make a processing applet/exe into a windows screensaver?
thanks!
amb
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seltar
Re: oracle (screensaver not db!) > not working
Reply #2 - Mar 25th, 2006, 4:34pm  
it works in preview mode, but the screen-saver never actually turns on..

i've been trying to make this work myself, so you had my hopes up, thought this would actually work, but the problem still stands.

It _seems_ to work, but it never actually activates by windows.. anybody know where this problem can lie?

-seltar
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JohnG
Re: oracle (screensaver not db!)
Reply #3 - Mar 25th, 2006, 4:40pm  
I think you have to accept certain command line switches to make an exe work properly as a screensaver.

See: http://www.wischik.com/scr/howtoscr.html
Farily out of date, but may still be relevant. Looks like /s is the important one.

This may aslo be of use:
https://screensavers.dev.java.net/
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