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#1 2008-03-14 07:33:14
ScratchSavers
Because of Jens's Chirp, I've decided to make a website called ScratchSavers. This has Scratch Projects that are made special to be screensavers.
Everyone on Scratch can upload!
We're moving to Scratch Resources!
Last edited by ihaveamac (2008-05-20 04:55:15)
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#3 2008-03-15 19:53:45
Re: ScratchSavers
I got your [ihaveamac] message on my project. I made a bunch and they're all really cool. Here they are:
Aquarium: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Jacobo/120868
Space: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Jacobo/120870
Scratch Cat: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Jacobo/120866
Gobo: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Jacobo/120867
Hope you enjoy them. They're all under three mb (the highest is like 1.1 mb or somethig) In the aquarium screen saver bubbles follow the mouse. That might be a problem. If it is I'll fix it. I don't get what I need Chirp for. I have it though. 
Last edited by Jacobo (2008-03-15 19:56:19)
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#4 2008-03-15 21:16:20
Re: ScratchSavers
Chirp allows you to have a scratch project as your screen saver. Put projects you want as screensavers in the Scratch Projects Folder. Then enable your screensaver as Chirp.
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#5 2008-03-16 03:19:59
Re: ScratchSavers
I think my web-spinning spider would make a nice screensaver - at least, the way screensavers are defined now - something pretty to look at when you are not working...
Web-spinning Spider: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Mayhem/18456
3D Dungeon Adventure: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Mayhem/23570
Starfighter X: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Mayhem/21825
Wandering Knight: http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/Mayhem/28484
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#7 2008-03-19 03:11:59
Re: ScratchSavers
This is cool, ihaveamac!
Jacobo: I didn't (yet) make the Chirp screensaver plugin configurable because I didn't want to provide another user interface (Dialogs) with it's own National Language Support. Also, enabling the screensaver to be configurable would require letting it write something to your hard drive (in an .ini or .cfg file), which might cause all kinds of UAC-related problems under Vista that I can't solve because I don't have Vista...
Currently you can specify a single Scratch project to always run as default screensaver by putting just this one into your Projects folder (and move all other projects to some other subfolder).
Hope that helps...
Jens Mönig
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#8 2008-03-19 03:40:54
Re: ScratchSavers
To shorten what Jens said,
To have Chirp choose a certain project, put the project you want only as your screensaver, and the other ones to change later in a different folder.
Edit: Grammer Mistake
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#9 2008-04-06 05:25:19
Re: ScratchSavers
ScratchSavers is down now. I'm adding new stuff.
This post will go away when The website is back up.
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