[martemiw]

Hi,

I have developed a great new screensaver on OSX 10.3. It takes pictures out of your pictures directory and paints them as an artist would , while you watch. I am having difficulty making sure it runs properly on 10.1 and 10.2. If you have an older version of OSX and a couple of minutes would you check out my site www.dashworksstudios.com and try the screensaver. Please send me an email to let me know if it worked.

If you have 10.3 by all means try the screensaver and let me know what you think.

Michael

[Arclite]

Wow. That owns. I'm speechless.

[arekkusu]

Neat, but crashes Sys Prefs after previewing once. This on 10.3.3, 15" AlBook:

Thread 2 Crashed:
0 com.apple.yourscreensaver 0x0593ec20 -[DPSaverView forX:forY:setR:setG:setB:] + 0x120
1 com.apple.yourscreensaver 0x0593fc64 Paintbrush:erformStroke(Stroke*) + 0x2f8
2 com.apple.yourscreensaver 0x05942a18 PaintLayer:aintStroke(int, int, float, color) + 0x70c
3 com.apple.yourscreensaver 0x05942234 PaintLayer:aint(float, Image*, Image*, Image*) + 0x33c
4 com.apple.yourscreensaver 0x05942c80 PaintProcess:aint(float, Image*, Image*, Image*) + 0x64
5 com.apple.yourscreensaver 0x05943eb0 Painter:aint(Image*, float, PaintProcess*) + 0x364
6 com.apple.yourscreensaver 0x05943b24 Painter::Filter(PainterArg*) + 0x78
7 com.apple.yourscreensaver 0x0594130c -[PainterController theCanvas:] + 0xb58
8 com.apple.Foundation 0x90a3a2c4 forkThreadForFunction + 0x6c
9 libSystem.B.dylib 0x900247e8 _pthread_body + 0x28

[martemiw]

Thanks for the information. I will look into this issue and get back to you.

Does it run fine as a screensaver, not in preview, or does that crash as well.

Talk to you soon.
Michael

[Diggory Laycock]

Wow that's impressive.

It ran about four times perfectly for me (using the preview) the next time it crashed:

Code:

Thread 4 Crashed:
0   com.apple.yourscreensaver      	0x053edc20 -[DPSaverView forX:forY:setR:setG:setB:] + 0x120
1   com.apple.yourscreensaver      	0x053eec64 Paintbrush::performStroke(Stroke*) + 0x2f8
2   com.apple.yourscreensaver      	0x053f1a18 PaintLayer::paintStroke(int, int, float, color) + 0x70c
3   com.apple.yourscreensaver      	0x053f1234 PaintLayer::paint(float, Image*, Image*, Image*) + 0x33c
4   com.apple.yourscreensaver      	0x053f1c80 PaintProcess::paint(float, Image*, Image*, Image*) + 0x64
5   com.apple.yourscreensaver      	0x053f2eb0 Painter::paint(Image*, float, PaintProcess*) + 0x364
6   com.apple.yourscreensaver      	0x053f2b24 Painter::Filter(PainterArg*) + 0x78
7   com.apple.yourscreensaver      	0x053f030c -[PainterController theCanvas:] + 0xb58
8   com.apple.Foundation           	0x90a3a2c4 forkThreadForFunction + 0x6c
9   libSystem.B.dylib              	0x900247e8 _pthread_body + 0x28

Any chance of an option to choose which picture folder to use? or how long the finished picture remains onscreen before starting the new painting?

[martemiw]

Thanks for the compliments and the bug info. You seem to have the same problem as others and I recognize the error so I know what is happening I am just not sure why it is happening. I will definitely right again when I have resolved the issue and updated the software.

As for your enhancements, they will be added to the todo list. I had left out a delay so that you would be compelled to watch the next one. As a quick fix for the directories I may change it to look in a specific sub directory and then you can put the ones you like in there.

Let me know if you like the quick fix, and I'll get you a version like that to try.

Thanks again,
Michael Artemiw

[martemiw]

Working with arekkusu I was able to solve the bug causing the crash. For anyone who tried it and had trouble please try it again.

The file on the website is the new working version.

Enjoy,
Michael Artemiw
DashWorks Studios

www.dashworksstudios.com

[Diggory Laycock]

Hmmm - the GZipping appears to my machine to be invalid (both to Stuffit and the GZip tool)

gzip: /Users/diggory/Incoming/Web/DPSaver.tar.gz: invalid compressed data--format violated

I have a file that is 188KB (189,545 bytes).

[alephnull]

same thing here... the gzip file is not valid (but the pics on the web site look good!)

[martemiw]

I am using tar and gzip in the shell, as well as ftp but I cannot see why this doesn't work. Give me a couple more minutes.
M.

Thanks for spoting the error.

Originally posted by alephnull:
same thing here... the gzip file is not valid (but the pics on the web site look good!)

[martemiw]

There seems to be something wrong with gzip and ftp. If I gzip the file is fine, when I ftp the file it gets mangled. The file size remains correct but upon downloading the file is useless. I am using ftp in binary mode but no luck.

For now the site has the tar file which works but is a bigger download. I will replace with a gzip as soon as I know it works.

Thanks for you help,
Michael Artemiw

Originally posted by alephnull:
same thing here... the gzip file is not valid (but the pics on the web site look good!)

[itai195]

Just tried out the tar, no problems so far. Great job man!