Re: building upon existing screensavers?
Re: building upon existing screensavers?
- Subject: Re: building upon existing screensavers?
- From: Daniel Jalkut <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:16:40 -0500
Jacob - I don't think there's any "easy" way to do this, but you
might want to measure the engineering complexity of what you're
planning to do - basically reinventing a majillion wheels, vs. the
complexity of learning how to write your own "screensaver host."
Think of how screensavers work. The system loads your code and calls
certain class methods like "animate" or whatnot. Well, there's
nothing to prevent you from being a little "mini-system" in your own
screensaver. You could theoretically load several screensaver bundles
privately, and call *their* methods for "animate" from within your
method for "animate."
Make sense?
Would be a pretty cool hack, actually.
Daniel
On Feb 19, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Jacob Eggers wrote:
I have curiosity...
I'm creating a basic screensaver that shows the next few songs
playing in
iTunes.
But, the longer I'm working on it the more features I'm putting
into it.
However, many of these features are already available through other
screensavers, so I was wondering if it were possible to select a
random
screensaver, and just add text above it.
I'm sure that the answer is no, but just it case. It's be pretty
awesome and
save me from thinking of more features and spending an insane
amount of time
on a fun, getting to know cocoa application.
j
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