Question about screensaver

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Hello.

In my BrightScript application after required time I have to do some operations and then run screensaver. I found in SDK project named “clock” and add libScreensaver.brs to my project. Now I can create screensaver in required time, but if box screensaver is enabled it openes after specified time and cover my screensaver. Tell me, please, how could I disable default box screensaver in my application, or how could I run default box screensaver in my application after time which was specified in my application?

Thanks!

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Help! Help! Help!

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Do you have screensaver_private=1 in your manifest?

-JT

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“renojim” wrote:
Do you have screensaver_private=1 in your manifest?
-JT

No, but I’ve just added this string and nothing changed.

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In order to have a private screen saver within your channel, you need to have screensaver_private=1 in your manifest (make sure that the last line of your manifest ends with a new line and you have to have a routine in your channel named RunScreenSaver() that never returns (the user pressing a button on the remote will kill the routine).

-JT

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“renojim” wrote:
In order to have a private screen saver within your channel, you need to have screensaver_private=1 in your manifest (make sure that the last line of your manifest ends with a new line
-JT

My manifest file has next content:


title=Name
subtitle=About
screensaver_title=Roku Analog Clock
screensaver_private=1
mm_icon_focus_hd=pkg:/images/mm_icon_focus_hd.png
mm_icon_focus_sd=pkg:/images/mm_icon_focus_sd.png
major_version=1
minor_version=0
build_version=00000

Is it right?

“renojim” wrote:
you have to have a routine in your channel named RunScreenSaver() that never returns (the user pressing a button on the remote will kill the routine).
-JT

I don’t use RunScreenSaver(). For starting ScreenSaver I use 2 files: analogclock.brs and libScreensaver.brs and create ScreenSaver by next metod:


Function RunScreenSaverStart()
    canvas = CreateScreensaverCanvas("#000000")
    index = Rnd(2)
    if index = 1
    	canvas.SetImageFunc(CreateRokuAnalogClock)   '(GetClockImage)
    else if index = 2
    	canvas.SetImageFunc(CreateWhiteAnalogClock)   '(GetClockImage)
    end if
    canvas.SetLocFunc(screensaverLib_RandomLocation)
    canvas.SetLocUpdatePeriodInMS(6000)
    canvas.SetUpdatePeriodInMS(1000)
    canvas.SetUnderscan(.09)
    return canvas
End Function

Does it mean that I use wrong way and for using ScreenSaver I have use only RunScreenSaver()?

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Yes, you need RunScreenSaver(), it works just like sub main(), it is effectively the main() for your screensaver. Don’t include a main() or a runUserInterface() function if you want it to only function as a screensaver.

  • Joel
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“RokuJoel” wrote:
Yes, you need RunScreenSaver(), it works just like sub main(), it is effectively the main() for your screensaver.

  • Joel

Ok, I got it. So I’ve changed my metod RunScreenSaverStart() and now ScreenSaver workes fine.
Thanks a lot.