How to program a Windows screensaver in MX2 [SOLVED]

[DiffrenzyKeymaster]

[EDIT] Look below for working source code.

Can somebody help with getting a simple framework for a Windows screensaver going?

As I remember it from BlitzMax, the tricky things are:

Need to have:
Get commandline arguments. ( /c /p HWND /s )
Draw to a windows that is a child of the preview window, when Screensaver is started with /p HWND
Preferably use DirectX not OpenGL

Nice To Have:
Config dialog and a place to store settings.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/182383/info-screen-saver-command-line-arguments

[DiffrenzyKeymaster]

Getting the comandline seems to work:

Monkey

#Import "<std>" Using std.. #Import "<windows.h>" Extern Alias LPCTSTR:CString Function GetCommandLineW:LPCTSTR() Public Function Main() Local cmd:= GetCommandLineW() Print cmd End

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#Import "<std>" Using std.. #Import "<windows.h>" Extern Alias LPCTSTR:CString Function GetCommandLineW:LPCTSTR() Public Function Main() Local cmd:= GetCommandLineW() Print cmd End

[DiffrenzyKeymaster]

.solved

[DiffrenzyKeymaster]

I got it working with preview window and all

Code here: http://monkeycoder.co.nz/forums/topic/windows-screensaver-with-preview/

[Mark SiblyKeymaster]

Woah, nice!

Was gonna give you a speech about ‘monkey2 isn’t really meant for that’ but if you can make it work go for it!

[DruggedBunnyParticipant]

Wow, perfect here in Win 7 64, well done.

For anyone not sure how to test, rename the resulting yourapp.exe found in yourapp.products/Windows/ (after building) as yourapp.scr; right-click it and choose Install.

Just deletingyourapp.scr will take it out of the screensaver list.

Would never have imagined that would work!

[nerobotParticipant]

Nice!

[DiffrenzyKeymaster]

Thanks and thanks for testing!

I cleaned up the code a little and moved it to the code archive.

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