Processing Screensavers

Thursday, October 4. 2007

Screensavers are one of those kinds of programs that don't have much purpose (at least the great majority of them) but still can be fun to watch. Even more if you're the one who programmed it.

I'm thinking screensavers could be a motivating factor in my Multimedia Programming course ;), so I decided to create a small program that allows any Processing program to be run as a screensaver.

It uses the Saverbeans SDK so it only works for Windows, Linux and Solaris.

Download

Here

Instructions for use (only tested in Windows)

Download and unpack the zip
Copy all files to Windows/System32
Create a Processing app
Export application
Copy the application jar to Windows/System32
Configure the ProcessingScreensaver.scr to use your application (just write the Jar name without ".jar")

Posted by Jorge Cardoso in Processing at 17:38 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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First of all, great idea ! It will indeed be motivating ;)

Now, I've had some issues running screensavers, and it appears it's an issue in Saverbeans : https://screensavers.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=20

Maybe you could update saverbeans-api.jar in your package ;)

Also, i think it would have a big potential (so, more motivation for us :p) if we could make this easier to install/use for the non-geeks. Like an installer, and some kind of list of the installed screensavers (instead of the textfield).

#1 Yhancik (Homepage) on 2007-11-26 20:34 (Reply)

Can I see your screensavers works?

#1.1 Ivan Kia (Homepage) on 2010-07-02 19:57 (Reply)

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