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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Technical question: Screensavers

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Andy Igoe
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Posted: 14th Jan 2003 22:09
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I don't know if anyone else has encountered a problem similiar to this but i've just written my first screen saver, it executes fine as a program but when windows launches it as the system screen saver the program is loaded repeatedly.

Is there a way to prevent this or a .dll call to detect if another copy of the program is already running?

I'd be grateful for the help as i'm stuck.
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Net Commander
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Posted: 14th Jan 2003 23:09
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You could take a look at the screen saver code I wrote:
http://www.darkbasicpro.com/apollo/view.php?t=421&b=6

The comments should explain it all.

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The Wendigo
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Posted: 15th Jan 2003 05:49
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That should do it! I've also been thinking of making a universal screensaver program in Visual BASIC 6.0 (which has an app instance checker). That might get rid of any possable screen flickering that might result from DB.

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Andy Igoe
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Posted: 15th Jan 2003 09:45
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Thankyou DoomJudge

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