demos to screensavers

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I've written a couple of demos that would look cool as screensavers, but simply renaming the exe to ".scr" (Windows95) doesn't do the trick. Is there a specific file format? And maybe even a conversion utility? If I wan't an options dialog, is there a way to do that w/DOS code, or does it have to be Win32 native?
Thanks in advance for any help.

rhianan

Firstly you obviously want to change your demo so it exits if a key is pressed or the mouse is moved.

To display the dialog box Windows calls the screensaver with the option /c.

To generate the preview (in the Display properties window) Windows calls the screen saver with the /p option.

rhianan

After looking at some of the files on here i'll add this:

According to the Topsourc files on ph you should make sure that the...

'Application title must always be: SCRNSAVE "program name"'

...and that when you exit you should tell windows you have...(this is their vb code for it)

'dummy% = SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE, 1, ByVal 0&, 0)'