Description

The dBL_ScreenSaver is a screen saver that displays your own digital pictures when your computer has been left idle for some time.

Advantages

• No need to resize, nor crop the images. The dBL_ScreenSaver is made to display hi-resolution digital images taken by digital cameras. It will resample them on the fly.
• The application selects automatically the appropriate dimension (the height or the width of the image) to fill the screen.
• When the user is tired looking over and over again to the same images, the images files located in the application’s folder just have to be changed to create a completely new screen saver.
• The slide show can be paused: the “p” key on the keyboard is a toggle key that stops/restarts the slide show.

• The pictures have to be JPEGs.
• These files has to be stored in a special folder (see Installation, below)

1. Download the dBASE Plus Runtime Engine (7.2 MB). This is the Virtual Machine needed for this application to run.
2. Download S_Screen.zip (38 Kb) in a temporary folder.
3. For Windows95 or Windows98, extract the two files it contains in the Windows\System folder. For WinNT or WindowsXP, extract them in the Windows\System32 folder.
4. Create a subfolder called “dBL_ScreenSaver” under the Windows\System or Windows\System32 folder.
5. In that subfolder, copy all the JPEGs you want the screen saver to display.
6. Open the Display applet of the Control Pannel and select “dBL_ScreenSaver.scr” as your screen saver and chose the number of minutes after which you want it to start automatically.

History

• Version 1.0 (February 2004).
• Version 1.01 (March 2004): a preview window was added.
• Version 1.02 (March 2004): the name of the image is now displayed in a text centered at the bottom of the screen (instead of using a titlebar). The “p” key on the keyboard is now a toggle key that stops/restarts the slide show.

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