Screensavers in Haxe?

[Scott Thiessen]

Is it possible to compile to a Windows or OS X screensaver using Haxe? Has anyone been successful with this, or have any ideas on this?

[sergey miryanov]

For windows - http://www.wikihow.com/Convert-an-Executable-File-Into-a-Screensaver

On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Scott Thiessen <ssccc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is it possible to compile to a Windows or OS X screensaver using Haxe? Has anyone been successful with this, or have any ideas on this?

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[AS3Boyan]

For Windows it's should be very easy to make:

rename *.exe to *.scr and put it in Windows folder.

You should handle mouse move and key presses to terminate screensaver when user does something.

Also it's obvious - your app should start fullscreen.

четверг, 24 октября 2013 г., 20:14:38 UTC+3 пользователь sergey-miryanov написал:

[clemos]

You should handle mouse move and key presses to terminate screensaver when user does something.

I believe this is handled by Windows.

At your application's level, you don't need to bother with user input, 

since the program will be killed as soon as the user does anything (mouse move, key press, click,...)

At least that's the way it was back in the days :D

I've done a couple of screensavers in the past, 

our workflow was just to compile a .swf, and package it as a screensaver using tools like these :

http://www.video-flash.de/swf-screensaver-for-mac/

http://www.instantstorm.com/

Regards,

Clément

[Scott Thiessen]

Right on, thanks everyone!