by Micah Carrick (2 Submissions)
Category: Complete Applications
Compatability: Visual Basic 3.0
Difficulty: Beginner
Date Added: Wed 3rd February 2021
Rating: (13 Votes)
Visual Basic Screen Saver walks you through the process of building a screen saver in VB as well as explaining why. From setting up the project to knowing what parameters are passed to a screensaver at run time. Includes the tutorial in windows .hlp format as well as complete screensaver source code.
[notes added 4.20.2005]
This is old... like 1999 old. Also, The HTML version is at https://www.micahcarrick.com/v2/content/view/10/3/
I hear it doesn't work in XP. Anybody know why?
Assumes
This is for anyone who is a beginner at making screen savers, as it does not get into the more complex tasks of preview and high end graphics. Anyone curious as to how to make thier own saver.