floyd@starsend.UUCP (Floyd Miller) (09/18/89)
I, too, am interested in finding a screen blanking program. However, rather than displaying a fixed image I'm looking for a way to have the screen blanker invoke a specified program that would display a moving image to avoid phosphor burn-in. Something like "life" or "fishes". This could be similar to the "lock" program that comes with Sun's Unix. Perhaps it requires multi-tasking? So rather than a TSR it could be a DesqView or MS-Windows backgound job. Ideas? ******* ************************************* ***** ********************** Floyd Miller *** *************** * ********* floyd%starsend@PRC.Unisys.com *** starsend!floyd@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.com *
roper@cs.washington.edu (Michael Roper) (09/20/89)
Floyd Miller writes: > I, too, am interested in finding a screen blanking program. > However, rather than displaying a fixed image I'm looking for > a way to have the screen blanker invoke a specified program > that would display a moving image to avoid phosphor burn-in. hDC Windows Manager includes (among many other features) three different styles of screen savers for Microsoft Windows. One is called "Polygons" which displays "streaming" polygons in various colors on a black background. The user can control the number of polygons in the stream and the number of sides per polygon. The second is called "Rocks" and displays an animated asteroid field which the user can navigate through with the mouse. The third type of screen saver lets the user paste in a bitmap of choice which is then "bounced" around the screen. Michael Roper hDC Computer Corp.
hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au (Roger Hadgraft) (09/21/89)
There is an MS WIndows application called Firework which provides an animated display while the screen is blanked. It's shareware and is available from Synergistic Enterprises, 8033 Sunset Blvd, #975, Los Angeles, CA 90046, (213)852-1688. Cost is $5-10. The same company produces GCP (formally easel) which does graphic file conversions. -- Roger Hadgraft | hadgraft@civeng.monash.edu.au Lecturer in Civil Engineering | phone: +61 3 565 4983 Monash University | fax: +61 3 565 3409 Clayton, Vic. 3168. Australia. |