Clint's Screen Saver
What is it?
This screen saver is really basic. Point it to a file, set a few options and it will basically bounce a image (GIF, JPEG or BMP) around your screen.
Things it can do:
- The maximum speed of the bounce can be set (in pixels) as well as the frequency (in milliseconds) which it updates* The image increases and decreases in velocity and makes random changes as well
- Set a background colour (click on the colour box for a popup colour picker)
- Selecting auto change picture’ will cause the program to check periodically if the image has changed (by checking its timestamp). If changed, it will reload it.
- Ticking ‘Use current ActiveDesktop wallpaper image’ will override whatever you have selected as ‘Picture’. When running, CSS will lookup your current ActiveDesktop wallpaper image, and use that to bounce. If you have ‘Auto change picture’, it will poll occasionally to see if the value has changed. If it has, it will show the new picture. This is great when used with a wallpaper switching program
- If you’re running it on a Windows 2000/XP system, and may have to press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to get out of it, due to NT’s secure workstation feature. Since moving the mouse and pressing keys doesn’t do anything with that feature I made mouse movements slow the image down for a bit. This is handy for when an image starts bouncing crazily, and you can’t make it out properly
To Install
Copy the ’.scr’ file into your Windows directory (usually something cunning like C:WINDOWS). Then select the screen saver from your desktop properties dialog.
HINT: It works swell with my wallpaper switcher and webcam programs. It can pick up the images they save and use that as your bouncing image. Leverage those images!
Download CSS (1.15MB bloated installer)
2. June 2003More stuff in: code
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