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screen saver for Perl fans?

by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor)
on Jul 22, 2001 at 11:18 UTC ( [id://98791]=perlquestion: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

John M. Dlugosz has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Just on a lark, does anyone know if there is such a thing as a Perl-themed screen saver for Win32?

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Re: screen saver for Perl fans?
by MZSanford (Curate) on Jul 22, 2001 at 11:47 UTC
    With the exception of changing my OpenGL spinning text saver to say quotes a la Larry Wall and general programming stuff ... i dont know of any.
    remeber the immortal word's of Socrates who said, "I drank what ?"
      As i think, i will start work on one (why not?). What i would like is any suggestions from Monks out there for what should be on such a thing. C/C++ is not my strong point, so this may actually get me working some rusty bits that need it .... let loose with suggestions and i will let anyone know what i do.
      remeber the immortal word's of Socrates who said, "I drank what ?"
        There is some kind of screen-saver interface that you can use to make a Win32 program play nicely as a screen saver, but I don't know details.

        A long time ago, After Dark had a development kit.

        Re a framechat screensaver: Use the "channel" screen saver, or that concept. I'm not familiar with channels, but it looks like it displays a web page full-screen.

        Animated camel walking across the screen. Pearls. Larry Wall quotes. Shoot-a-monk autoplay. CPAN module summaries. All of the above, mixed together.

        Well, one suggestion is to compile a list of snippets and quotes from the monks and have them morph into each other..
        -Syn0
Re: screen saver for Perl fans?
by perigeeV (Hermit) on Jul 22, 2001 at 21:16 UTC
    Here's some fun:

    Get a configurable screensaver that will pull an URL, or at least open a specified text file. For Winblows I personally enjoy ActiveScreen . It uses a highly adaptable ASCII config file (described here) for refresh rate, location, etc. Now you can point it at your personally written CGI script and make nearly anything into your screensaver. So for instance let's say you're running framechat like a good Monk. In theory you could point the screensaver at your framchat script and you now have a PerlMonks Chat Screensaver! You are limitted only by what you can do with a CGI script.

    Caveats: the program has a free trial period, but at $25.00US it's worth it. I am at work so I have not tried framechat on it. Let me know if it works. You can set the screensaver to run executables so I wouldn't recommend this for a sensitive environment.

Re: screen saver for Perl fans?
by wine (Scribe) on Jul 22, 2001 at 12:44 UTC
    For a Perl fan, the nice Perl Fan may do. ;)

    - Good luck

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