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Early alpha of a Snow-like screensaver available for testing
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People have been talking (threads one and two) about making a screensaver like XSnow available for OS X. I was bored...
This early version of Sn0w is not very pretty, not customisable and not as fast as it should be. However, it works. I hope. That's what I need to find out:) Anybody who's interested in testing it, download here and leave any feedback in this thread. Note that Sn0w requires the Accessibility API to be enabled; to do this, go to the Universal Access preference pane and make sure "Allow access for assistive devices" is checked (requires admin privileges).
(Last edited by Gul Banana; Dec 24, 2002 at 06:42 AM.
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[vash:~] banana% killall killall
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cool, bugger does some odd stuff w/ dual monitors – but this is probably apple's fault with either/or Accessibility and the screen saver API... not the fault of your code.
where'd you find out how to grab a screenshot to use for a screensaver?
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I'm not grabbing a screenshot 
Try putting a console window or something that updates there - you can see it's realtime. Dual monitor support is not something I have even attempted yet; later on when it gets closer to a working thingy I will.
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Awesome job! 
Although it's pretty elementary at this point (understandable ) it shows tons of potential! Next xmas should be very festive! 
I only ran it for a couple minutes but here's my list;
1) it doesn't collect snow on the dock 
2) it collects on some (/all?) transparent windows.
You could probably rake it in next xmas - just make it rule to the point that people want to throw their money at you! Heck, I'd almost pay $6 for it as-is - except, xmas has past.
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Thank you, although the fact that Rick Jansen is now porting the 'proper' Snow makes me somewhat less relevant Still, we'll see.
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Originally posted by Gul Banana:
Thank you, although the fact that Rick Jansen is now porting the 'proper' Snow makes me somewhat less relevant Still, we'll see.
Hey, There's no such thing as a wasted programming project as long as you learn from it!
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Competition is good, for me to poop on?
Don't know where that came from but there it is...
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Originally posted by yeslekmc:
Hey, There's no such thing as a wasted programming project as long as you learn from it!
Hey, did you used to lecture computer science at my university?!  My lecturers use to say the exact same thing!
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