Making your own screensaver...

[Tyiell]

Has anyone ever done this? Maybe its obvious, but I've never even considered it - a teacher wants one made up for the classroom machines to remind students not to print unless they have to!!

 

Are animated screensavers just flash files or what?

[TwoZeroAlpha]

Just check with the teacher they mean "screensaver" as we understand it. My teachers ask for them all the time when what they actually want is a different desktop background.

[Tyiell]

Just check with the teacher they mean "screensaver" as we understand it. My teachers ask for them all the time when what they actually want is a different desktop background.

 

Good point!! I think she does mean the screensaver this time though - the background is set by us already and no-one gets to change it. Caused an upcry at first, but people are used to it now...

[gibbo_ap]

google flash to scr. thats what i did years ago.... i then spent 2 days making 4 lines of text fade in and out at the right time. lol

[SteveBentley]

I did ours with Flash and InstantStorm - a free Flash screensaver creator - turn your SWF files into a screensaver - free and doesn't throw adverts or splash screens up. Just has a discrete plug for the software in the Settings dialog.

[rad]

if a student is using a computer, why would they even wait for the screensaver to come on?

 

I think she means wallpaper, we dont have a screensaver on student accounts

[Arthur]

Are animated screensavers just Flash files or what?

Not all screensavers are made with Flash...

 

http://mattcollinge.wordpress.com/software/video-screen-saver/

 

This is a small screen saver I wrote which will randomly pick video clips from a folder on your PC. I was after something like this a while ago and could only find programs you have to pay for; I then realised you could embed Microsoft Media Player as an ActiveX control and could control it using some simple calls.

[maniac]

Did our school logo one by hacking apart the standard windows XP screensaver and replacing the graphic

[Tyiell]

I think the idea is that when they come into a classroom the computers *should* be logged off and sitting on the screensaver. The idea is to raise awareness about printing allegedly for the environment, but more realistically for the school budget!! I have my doubts whether it will work, but it costs nothing to find out!!