RE: FLASH: Flash Screensavers

[Troy M. Gilbert]

> I always wondered: how can I make my own screensaver? Which programs shall I


Making screen savers can be a difficult or easy task, depending on the

programming language you choose. At least, that's what I've found in my

own attempts.


Originally I used Delphi... but its normally useful abstraction hurts you

when making screensavers. Which I switched to C, it became a piece of

cake. The only thing thats stopping me from releasing my screen saver is a

lack of speed... but that's another story altogether.


Regarding using Flash in a screen saver, you have two choices: purchase

distribution rights for the Flash ActiveX/Netscape Plug-in and embed it in

the screen saver; or guarantee that your customer will have the ActiveX or

plug-in on their system.


Actually, there are two more choices: one was mentioned earlier -- make

the screen saver a webpage and make sure IE40 is available, then use

active channels screen saver. The second choice, and the most difficult:

implement your own runtime for flash... the file format is open, so its

just a matter of doing all the drawing.


Troy.





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