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Let you create win32 screensavers using web languages: HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
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Web Screensaver Generator. Create your own win32 screensavers using mainstream client-side web languages: HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Minimal requirements .NET Framework 4.5 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653 Internet Explorer 10 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/download-ie Before start Please check out "Readme.txt" files especially one in "Build" directory. Command-line application should be self-describing. FAQ Q: Example, please! A: "Build" directory -> Launch "build_sample.bat" -> No errors -> Launch "sample.scr". Q: Gimme moar! A: "Build" directory -> Launch "build_examples.bat" -> No errors -> Check "Examples" directory for .scr files. Q: How to create screensaver from scratch? A: Prepare your screensaver source files directory. Top level "index.html" file is mandatory. It could also include related web content (javascript, css, images), user-friendly screensaver caption ("caption.txt") and icon ("icon.ico"). Then open command prompt -> cd to "Build" directory -> build_screensaver.bat screensaver_source_directory output_screensaver_filename. Or just drag & drop your directory to "build_screensaver.bat" and enter output screensaver file path. Q: Do I need all these files to create screensavers? A: No, you just need "ScrGen.exe" from "Binaries" directory. But you won't be able to drag & drop your content to it. Q: How to install screensaver? A: You should have administrative privileges to make it available for everyone. Then place it into system32 directory (Win+R -> %windir%\system32). You can also right click -> install screensaver just for you. Q: How to uninstall it? A: Just choose another screensaver and delete related .scr file from system32 directory. Advanced FAQ Q: Why I'm getting security warning popups on my page? A: Add <!-- saved from url=(0016)http://localhost --> after <!DOCTYPE html> node (you're using this one, right?). Q: My web page get rendered in wrong browser mode or document mode. Any ideas? A: Make sure that your html <head> node contains <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> at the very beginning (or after title and charset). Check HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BROWSER_EMULATION via regedit for DWORD 10000. The same for Wow6432Node. Q: Why preview of my screensaver is so ugly? A: There is no scaling of web page on screensaver module side. You can try to add such logic in web content javascript. Q: Why there are no settings? A: Which settings? :) Developers FAQ Q: Why .NET Framework 4.5? A: ScrGen packs content into zip archive to store embed it as resource. I don't want to use 3rd party assembly or use something like DeflateStream. The same about new .NET features. Q: Why IE10? A: There is no easy way to use WebKit for such small project. I'm even didn't used 3rd party libraries. IE10 was chosen for common-sense reason. I can disable IE10 restriction and you'll be able to use previous versions of IE but... Well, you know. Yes, it uses IE ActiveX inside. Q: Will it work on another platforms? A: Probably no. It uses much of Win32 API to handle resources, windows, user input, etc. You can try it yourself. Q: Why so much P/Invoke, byte-level ops, inheriting, error handling, no xml comments and other crazy stuff? Why not X? A: I supposed this will be enough for such tiny project. Because it's fun, why else? Q: I want cool feature X! A: Just fork it. Q: License? A: MIT. Blog post on Russian language http://vitalyobukhov.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/websaver/
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