Hi David, What you can do is create and run an AIR app on startup of the users machine, respond to the idleTime property and show some media or text accordingly. The only thing is that it won't show up in the screeensavers list on the appropriate OS.
I think the SPF app has something similar: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/samples_actionscript.html Also look at: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/desktop/NativeApplication.html#idleThreshold As for OS agnostic software to create screensavers, take a look at http://www.multidmedia.com/software/zinc/ i used that in the past an has a lot of extra API's you can use and well documented. It is also a bit pricy... but if you are creating this for a client maybe you can try to put this on their invoice as "expenses" (of make a deal with the client so they pay for it). Hope this steers you in a good direction, Best, Sidney -- Sidney de Koning - "Be a geek, rockstar style!" Read my blog: http://www.funky-monkey.nl (http://www.funky-monkey.nl/blog/) On Monday 12 March 2012 Week 11 at 23:58, David Hunter wrote: > Hi All, > > Anyone have any advice on making screensavers from Flash? I have seen some > decent looking software > http://www.screentime.com/software/flash-screensaverto convert an swf > into a screensaver but it is quite pricey, I didn't have > any luck with a mac open source alternatives, so I was wondering if it was > possible with AIR? I would need it to function fully as a screensaver eg. > be activated by user idle timeouts / hot corners etc... > > Thanks, > > David > > -- > David Hunter > > www.davidhunterdesign.com (http://www.davidhunterdesign.com) > +44 (0) 7869 104 906 > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com (mailto:Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com) > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
