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Developing OSX screensaver
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Oct 22, 2001, 08:47 PM
 
I've written a screensaver in REALbasic for OS9 that my company distributes with our products. I'd like to create a OSX version of this screensaver as well, but obviously, creating a .saver with the OSX API is much different than a simple REALbasic app. What can I do, or where can I go to learn how to write such a screensaver? I've never used ProjectBuilder before (save for a little poking around here and there), and I'm not familiar with Objective-C. Can anyone offer tips, advice, suggestions?

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Oct 23, 2001, 12:50 PM
 
Well, you'll basically need to find out how to draw into an NSView. See: http://developer.apple.com/samplecod...SillyBalls.htm http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Tec...-05-05.01.html

That is assuming you want to do 2D drawing, of course. for 3D using OpenGL, see example code here: http://www.epicware.com/macosxsavers.html

There are several other examples lying about. You will need to learn Obj-C, really.
     
   
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