Embedding Screensaver's in a Windows Form

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MSDN Blog Postings » Embedding Screensaver's in a Windows Form — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:27:27 GMT

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re: Embedding Screensaver's in a Windows Form

Jamie Akers — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:21:48 GMT

The reason that some screensavers don't play nice with /p is this option is used in the Display Properties, Screensaver tab to display a preview of the screensaver. Windows passes the handle of the preview window to the screensaver and the screensaver draws a preview on that handle.

Some screensavers, (typically the quickly knocked up Flash screensavers) don't show this preview window and simply ignore the /p argument altogether. This lazy man's approach to coding screensavers stops them working with your application.

http://coolthingoftheday.blogspot.com/2007/12/embedding-screensaver-in-winform-think.html

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re: Embedding Screensaver's in a Windows Form

Joe Lindhardt — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:49:12 GMT

Hi,

I was wondering if you could help a fellow person. I am looking for a small app that will let me play some Windows screensavers in a window as opposed to full screen (e.g., screensaver.scr /s at the command line only plays full screen and the /p switch doesn't work). Ideally, the window would be resizeable to any dimension using the mouse and would prevent the screensaver from disactivating from any keyboard or mouse movements. I saw your code online, but I am not a programmer with a compiler, so I wouldn't know how to modify the code to achieve my objectives.

I'm sure you're busy, but if you could take a minute to help it would surely be appreciated. Thanks and have a great day.