[Bf-committers] Screenblender (Using blenderplayer.exe as a screen saver)

[Kester Maddock]

Hi Raymond,

Looks good - one suggestion is to launch a Blender scene called 'config' or 
something in a window if it exists for the screensaver configuration button.

Kester

On Saturday 27 November 2004 10:45, Raymond Penners wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Attached is a patch that enables the blenderplayer to be run as a
> screen saver on Windows machines.
>
> - The patch only alters files in:
> blender/source/gameengine/GamePlayer/ghost
>
> - Any blenderplayer.exe (with the patch applied) can be renamed into
> something.scr, and it will behave as a Windows screen saver.
> (Right-click the .scr file, and select "Install". Then, it will appear
> in the screen saver properties dialog part of the display settings,
> including small preview et al).
>
> - The screen saving functionality does not affect the executable when
> it is NOT named .scr
>
> - The screen saver automatically exits when the mouse/keyboard is
> moved/pressed. There is no more need to wrap blenderplayer.exe into a
> bat file and use python quit controllers, or whatever else is
> suggested at
> http://download.blender.org/documentation/oldsite/oldsite.blender3d.org/181
>_Blender%20news%20haloParty.html
>
> - It has been currently been tested to work Windows XP
>
> Please let me know what you think of this patch. Is it commit worthy? :)
>
> Regards,
> --
> Raymond Penners -*- raymond at dotsphinx.com -*- www.dotsphinx.com

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