This project also started out like it was going to be easy. I programmed a rotating spinning cube demo on the Playstation 2, where each cube had my picture all over it. So I said to myself, hey, why not do that as a screen saver at home, that loads JPGs on your harddrive and spins them around.

Well, it was hard, and using the screen saver API was hard, and putting OpenGL in a window handle and then in a screen saver was hard. But I think it turned out pretty wicked awsome. If you want to install it, download the zip file

ZIP FILE

extract it. Then move all three files into your windows\system32 directory. If you don’t know where that is, I pity you.

After that, open your Display Properties and new screen saver will be there. It even has a kick ass preview screen.

From there, you can customize your new JPG screen saver with the Settings button. This will let you add JPG directories, control the number of pictures, their speed and rotation and all that other crap that has to be read and written to the registry.

Well knock yourself out with it, there’s more pics at the bottom.

Wanna see the source code? I bet you do chumley.

SOURCE CODE

This project took me a long time, relatively, so the code is in a pretty poor state. The comments should be enough to get you through it, but the design has evolved more than it has been planned

Commands
Open the Settings box and see: