Thread: Making a Screensaver?

i have a nice program that i'd like to make into a screen saver (using Allegro), how would i go about doing this? (i heard you need MSVC++)

well, there's the easy way and the hard way

the easy way is to rename the .exe to .scr (it really works!), but you miss all the functionality of the screen saver utility

the hard way is to look for exe2scr in the net, or something like that, there are a lot of tools for doing that

Good luck

Oskilian

how would i get it to show up in the windows list of screen savers?

Just put it in your windows directory.

I think it's actually \windows\system for Win9X and \windows\system32 for WinNT/2k/me/xp

Oskilian

i put it (ssaver.scr) into c:\windows\ and c:\windows\system but i haven't seen it in the list yet.. when i click on it it says "sscaver.scr can't be found"

I tried doing it with an exe and it worked!, try only placing it in one folder

is it a DOS or console program? I'm not sure if these work as a screen saver.


Good luck

Oskilian

Hey, sorry for telling you the wrong directory. I was thinking of bmp's for your desktop...All of my screensavers are in windows\system.

if anyone has MSVC++ installed and wouldn't mind sending me a few files i need to compile Allegro for windows please email me
[email protected] thanks