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From: liberte@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: The Last Screensaver
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Date: 5 May 88 17:19:00 GMT
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Nf-From: zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu!liberte    May  5 12:19:00 1988


With all these screensavers in the works and coming out, I would like
to see the screensaver to end all screensavers, at least under multifinder.  

- One screensaver could be customizable to launch a designated
  application which would do the fancy graphics.  
- The screensaver could have an optional fade-to-black or let the application
  do its own blackout.  
- The signal to quit the screensaver might be specified as
  mouse-motion, mouse-button, any key, some particular key, etc.  
- If possible, the designated application could be preloaded at startup.  

Since all the details of how to make the screensaver work with multiple
screens, background processes, etc, are difficult to get right and since
everyone wants their own fancy graphics display while saving the screen
and since it is difficult to write much in an init anyway, someone should do
the init part right and let the rest of us do the graphics.  Is this a
reasonable possibility?  Is there a way to make this work with other
finders and substitutes?

Dan LaLiberte
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu