screen saver

Hi

That's a really good idea - and it's something Dan and I have discussed broadly offline before. There are a few issues surrounding this, but I'm sure none are insurmountable.

What I'll do is convert this to a blueprint for you, and you can track it's status there.

Thanks

Alex

Hi,

I found something that really does the job like it should be, but the Xibo player won't close its proccess when there is mouse movement like an ordinary screensaver does, if there is an command line option for the Xibo Player like to close the .exe then it would wotk fine.

Place the file in the windows directory, and select from screensaver options "exe2scr" and place the path to the xibo player executable, select and time for the screensave to start en volia it will run xibo as an screensave, if someone has suggestion to exiting the executable again fill in please.

file download below

http://www.jimbug.org/downloads/download.php?dl=files/exe2scr/exe2scr.zip

Hi Dave

I think it's very unlikely that the .net player will be revised to run as a screensaver - given that support for it will finish with the 1.0 series. If someone wants to submit a patch for it then depending on how confident we are that it won't cause issues, we may look at including it in the next bugfix release of Xibo.

1.1/1.2 will have an all-new player and there is a similar py2screensaver utility that will probably be the basis for support for this in the python client.

Cheers

Alex

Hi Alex,

Sorry for the inconvience, i just wrote down what i tested, didn't know
that there was a new player in the next version. Now i know, thnx

Tonight i will finish the translation on the wiki of the link you send
me : http://wiki.xibo.org.uk/wiki/Release_Notes:1.0.1/nl

ps : If you need someone to test alpha, beta, release candidates, feel
free to contact me, i have been searching for Xibo for a long time
( open source of course ) and i have the freedom on my work to test a
lot of stuff ( including open source apps ) i have done so in the past
for other developers like drbl / clonezilla for example.

Cheers,

Dave

 Op maandag 11-05-2009 om 09:50 uur [tijdzone +0000], schreef Alex
Harrington:
> Question #64329 on Xibo changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/xibo/+question/64329
>
> Alex Harrington proposed the following answer:
> Hi Dave
>
> I think it's very unlikely that the .net player will be revised to run
> as a screensaver - given that support for it will finish with the 1.0
> series. If someone wants to submit a patch for it then depending on how
> confident we are that it won't cause issues, we may look at including it
> in the next bugfix release of Xibo.
>
> 1.1/1.2 will have an all-new player and there is a similar
> py2screensaver utility that will probably be the basis for support for
> this in the python client.
>
> Cheers
>
> Alex
>