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I wish to write a screen saver construction kit... for both the PC and Mac. Purebasic has been suggested, but I have registered on here to ask for the opinion of others.

Is PureBasic up to the task.. is it possible to read the command like arguments for instance, as passed by Windows for screen savers etc?

Thank you for your time.

XFreak wrote:Is PureBasic up to the task.. is it possible to read the command like arguments for instance, as passed by Windows for screen savers etc?

Of Course! You can achieve it in several different ways. Here is the source of a full screen saver written in Purebasic:

http://www.garyw.uklinux.net/pb/Screens ... Source.zip

As well as reading the command line args it contains a preview window and registry commands.

The only thing it doesn't handle is passwords, but that could be implemented.

Thanks for the information, and speed of the reply. Looks like someones bank account is about to increase... (and mine to decrease).

Writing screensavers for the Mac is probably better done using the free Quartz Composer that comes with the DevTools bundled with Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger).

XFreak wrote:Thanks for the information, and speed of the reply. Looks like someones bank account is about to increase... (and mine to decrease).

at leasts its value for money. and theres lots of support

> is it possible to read the command like arguments for instance,
> as passed by Windows for screen savers etc?

Sure: http://www.purebasic.com/documentation/ ... meter.html

BTW, one of the PureBasic programmers is called Freak, so maybe you could
change your name here to avoid confusion? Considering that you're new here.

PB wrote:BTW, one of the PureBasic programmers is called Freak, so maybe you could
change your name here to avoid confusion? Considering that you're new here.

Shouldn't you look at your own name first?

Trond wrote:

PB wrote:BTW, one of the PureBasic programmers is called Freak, so maybe you could
change your name here to avoid confusion? Considering that you're new here.

Shouldn't you look at your own name first?

LOL. Yes that is true. I thought you were part of the PureBasic team even. So maybe you should change your name before you ask him to change his?

moogle wrote:LOL. Yes that is true. I thought you were part of the PureBasic team even. So maybe you should change your name before you ask him to change his?

Hold on here.... your name is very similar to a search engine called google. For a second I thought that you were....

Ah well, never mind.

As for the original name.... I seriously doubt that anyone will be confused... unless of course they both end up using the same avatar.

i have a distinct "m" in front of my name

moogle wrote:i have a distinct "m" in front of my name

And PB has a distinct umm... Never mind.