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#1 2011-03-19 02:22:00

fullmoon
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A Scratch screensaver

I had to watch my brother tonight so rather than spend quality time with him I built a pretty nifty screensaver app that pulls projects off the front page and displays their statistics. There's a video here and if anyone's interested, I'll figure out how to actually export it as a screensaver so anyone can use it!

Something's messed up with the first six seconds or so of the video, I have no idea why.

EDIT: WIndows version now available. I'm working on ways to get it working on Mac and Linux, too.

Last edited by fullmoon (2011-03-19 12:57:15)

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn100/fullmoon32/wow.jpg

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#2 2011-03-19 02:34:45

urhungry
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

Seriously awesome. Great ui as well. Any chance of a Linux port?

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#3 2011-03-19 03:34:39

ihaveamac
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

lol, I had a site called ScratchSavers which used Chirp (Jens's old mod) for the saver. Not here now.

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#4 2011-03-19 03:49:53

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Re: A Scratch screensaver

Wish I could click 'love it'  tongue

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#5 2011-03-19 04:33:15

ssss
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

Chrischb wrote:

Wish I could click 'love it'  tongue

coulsn't you 'thumb's up''?

Hey.  It's me SSSS, back from the dead!  smile

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#6 2011-03-19 05:49:58

Paddle2See
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

That is very cool!  How do I get it for my PC?

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#7 2011-03-19 10:26:27

what-the
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

I made a screensaver which runs online projects. This is quite cool. Here's how to turn an exe into a screensaver.

Change the .exe file extension into .scr
Right click and install.

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#8 2011-03-19 10:28:01

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Re: A Scratch screensaver

Ho-ly Cheesecake

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#9 2011-03-19 10:31:18

thebuilderdd
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

Can fullmoon tell me how to make a screensaver like this? The video.

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#10 2011-03-19 10:38:44

bananaman114
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

That's awesome.

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#11 2011-03-19 12:57:35

fullmoon
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

Windows installer for the screensaver now available.

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn100/fullmoon32/wow.jpg

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#12 2011-03-19 13:06:22

urhungry
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

What is this coded in? Just wondering for the Linux port.

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#13 2011-03-19 13:09:28

fullmoon
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

urhungry wrote:

What is this coded in? Just wondering for the Linux port.

It's written in Flash, so I can just export the AIR executable for Linux. The tricky part will be getting it to act as a screensaver.

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn100/fullmoon32/wow.jpg

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#14 2011-03-19 13:29:22

urhungry
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

Can Flash interface with Xscreensaver? That's what Linux generally uses for screensavers. You would just have to export it in a detectable format.

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#15 2011-03-19 13:54:08

08jackt
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

so cool, so using that

awesome job on this  big_smile

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#16 2011-03-19 14:15:12

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Re: A Scratch screensaver

This is brilliant - I am using this now, and I love the way it flicks around, then shows info on projects  big_smile  I waited 1 min for it to come up then watched it all the way till the end  big_smile

LOVE IT  big_smile

Sab  big_smile

http://sabgamesdownload.weebly.com/uploads/5/2/4/8/5248085/4881802.png

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#17 2011-03-19 14:53:05

martianshark
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

Awesome!

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#18 2011-03-19 15:16:35

funnyman1120
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

cool! Does it change when the games change?

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#19 2011-03-19 15:17:42

fullmoon
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

funnyman1120 wrote:

cool! Does it change when the games change?

Yeah, it shows whatever is on the front page when it starts up.

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn100/fullmoon32/wow.jpg

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#20 2011-03-19 16:13:59

ian528
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

Oh yeah, what program did you use to make the .swf file?

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#21 2011-03-19 16:34:38

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Re: A Scratch screensaver

ian528 wrote:

Oh yeah, what program did you use to make the .swf file?

Can someone tell me?  hmm

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#22 2011-03-19 16:43:01

fullmoon
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

ian528 wrote:

Oh yeah, what program did you use to make the .swf file?

Flash CS5.

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn100/fullmoon32/wow.jpg

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#23 2011-03-23 22:44:55

GirWaffles64
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

[Please don't use my real name on the forums, thanks! -- fullmoon]?
lulz

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#24 2011-03-23 22:58:38

kayybee
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE FINISH THE MAC VERSION SOON!

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#25 2011-03-23 23:00:28

Harakou
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Re: A Scratch screensaver

Woah, that's awesome! Well done!

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