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- From: gyugyi@leland.Stanford.EDU (Paul Gyugyi)
- Subject: Re: How to write a Win 3.1 screen saver
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.004433.17053@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <BrwAv7.1zz@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 26 Jul 92 00:44:33 GMT
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- For a good example of writing .scr screen savers for Win3.1,
- see the June 1992 Windows Tech Journal, which had an article
- by Petzold. You can get the source for that issue on compuserve,
- in "GO CLMFORUM". I also posted the QuickC files I used to write a screen
- save to the winadv forum (blind2.zip). You need a few files from
- either the Win3.1 SDK or the Win3.0-Multimedia SDK. The files are:
- scrnsave.lib, scrnsave.h, mmsystem.lib, mmsystem.h(?). The ones
- in the Win3.1 SDK are incompatible with the multimedia sdk files.
- The Petzold article uses the multimedia sdk. The Win 3.1 sdk
- comes with sample code for a screen saver module. The *.scr files
- are just renamed *.exe files. You can invoke the modules yourself by
- renaming them to *.exe and invoking them with the -s option.
-
- Since I've had 1000+ downloads from compuserve, maybe it's about time
- I pushed it through an ethernet cable and got it over to cica. :).
-
- --
- Paul J. Gyugyi
- Grad student, control systems, Stanford University
- (and an avid LEGO collector)
- gyugyi@earthsea.Stanford.EDU
-