kangzhay92/scrstarterkit

Template for Creating Screen saver on Visual Studio

ScrStarterKit

Template for Creating Screen saver on Visual Studio

How to use

1. Download Screen_Saver.zip file from releases page
2. Copy the archive here => Your User Profile/Documents/Visual Studio 20XX/Templates/ProjectTemplates
3. Run Visual Studio
4. Create a New Project and in template list select Screen Saver and click Next
5. Set your project name and location, then click Create
6. Read the comments carefully in all source files before you modify it.

How it works?

• In Debug mode the output file is a normal .exe file, so you can use Visual Studio Debugger alongside with windowed Screen Saver, click File -> Configure to show the configuration dialog.

• In Release mode the output file is a full screen .scr file, there are 3 options in this file extension if you right-click the file:

  • Test for running Screen Saver in fullscreen mode.
  • Configure for show the Screen Saver configure dialog.
  • Install for installing the Screen Saver to your system, it will show Screen Saver Settings dialog.

  ToDo

  • More examples
  • Use hardware accelerated rendering library like OpenGL or Direct3D
  • Create .NET wrapper for a Screen Saver application (use WinForms or WPF, maybe I'll create a separated repo).