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Made my first screensaver!

Sitting around before work today I thought about 2 of my programs I have made. a full screen random walker and full screen Rain program. It occurred to me that they would make good screen savers. quick search later, I figured out how to do that. I altered the programs to close on mouse movement and compiled them to .jar files. wrapped them with a jar to exe program and changed the extension to .scr. installed them and they work great!

24th Mar 2017, 1:00 AM
LordHill
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You can easily achieve that using Processing IDE https://processing.org
24th Mar 2017, 2:40 AM
seamiki
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My journey learning programming has taken me to things I never even considered. before today, I never thought about making my own screen saver. Now I have 2 and have opened a doorway to more programming ideas. maybe I will add AI to my snake game and make it into another screen saver.
24th Mar 2017, 1:04 AM
LordHill
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It occurred to me that Conways Game Of Life would make a great screensaver... So, thanks to the skills I learned here, 4 years ago, I whipped up my best screensaver yet.. its free if anyone wants to give it a go. Thanks sololearn!!! https://lordhill.itch.io/conways-game-of-life-screensaver
11th Nov 2021, 5:28 PM
LordHill
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