Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!mordor!sri-spam!ames!umd5!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!zaphod!liberte From: liberte@zaphod.ncsa.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: The Last Screensaver Message-ID: <900003@zaphod> Date: 5 May 88 17:19:00 GMT Lines: 22 Nf-ID: #N:zaphod:900003:000:1112 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