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fragee

Make a screensaver
Dec 10^th, 2008, 11:52am

hey guys.

I have a windows PC and I want to have a cool, customized screensaver. There is a way to do it via this tool: http://jorgecardoso.org/processing/Screensaver/
But it does not work anymore with more complex Procesing Apps. A small animation is no problem, but my wish (either a 3D-clock or a XML-rss news reader) does not work.

To make a screensaver-file, you just have to change .exe to .scr, but when I copy the .exe from the exported application folder to a the system32 folder, it says "main class not found. programm will exit".

Sooo, I tried to find a "Wrapper" or something like that, that could wrap the exported .jar files to just one, simple .exe. But obviously I am too stupid to handle something like that >_>

Any ideas what to do?

well.. ehm.. okay, that works. Don't touch it!

PhiLho

Re: Make a screensaver
Reply #1 - Dec 10^th, 2008, 1:22pm

fragee wrote on Dec 10^th, 2008, 11:52am:

To make a screensaver-file, you just have to change .exe to .scr

Not really, the program has to react to some defined command line switches, among other things (for Windows, obviously). For all the gory details, see How to write a 32bit screen saver.
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but when I copy the .exe from the exported application folder to a the system32 folder, it says "main class not found. programm will exit".

Do you copy the lib folder with the exe That's where the real code is.

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