Evilzone ScreenSaver

[Huntondoom]

I have been working on this from the past 2 weeks,
its about 700 lines of code now, there is still alot to improve but
it is a raw version of it so enjoy
when its properly done Ill start an Offical Thread with Info and so on and on

Download: http://evilzone.org/projects-and-discussion/evilzone-screensaver/?action=dlattach;attach=320

[Kulverstukas]

so that is what you've been working on I thought you were making some RSS feed parsers or something
This works really well on WinXP really looks good too.
Just need to make it install as a screensaver now too.
Also may I ask how does it grab the posts? I think it needs a cookie to send to the server, so that server knows that it is you, because there are some boards which are not visible to guests, and there are members who has access to VIP section, that shouldn't probably be displayed either.

Maybe add a selection from what boards does the user want posts to appear

* Kulverstukas is waiting for official release.

[Huntondoom]

its opens up the sitemap of the site which every person can look at, its sorted on topics
it will then grab the first page topic's (I wish to take them all but that's gonna take time )
it will randomly select a topic, and downloads it HTML page, using that and the function string.Replace, and this Function Im able to extract the necessary information, save it in a file on your PC ("C:\Program Files\Evilzone\") along with Avatar pictures.

[Kulverstukas]

that... is pretty clever
I must say, nicely done.

[ande]

You need to multithread it, it hangs upon execution.

[Zesh]

Thats pretty neat but as Ande said it hangs upon execution, still I like it

[Huntondoom]

You need to multithread it, it hangs upon execution.

if you run it for the first time then it's downloading topic to show, it can take a while, depends on your connection
after the downloading is done, then it will gone on with displaying and it will download more of course but using multithreading.
it should display a text in the left-down corner that will showup whenever the thread is downloading, but it doesn't

[Huntondoom]

little announcement: because of school im quit busy, it's going to take some time before I can start working on it again.

[Huntondoom]

does anyone has improvement Ideas?

[Kulverstukas]

Add options screen to select from what forums to grab the posts. Add post rotation speed selection.

[Huntondoom]

Add post rotation speed selection.

should already been added :S

I look into it

[Kulverstukas]

Lolz sorry, I didn't realize to copy it to sys32 and see settings from there
But I get an exception when I open settings.
Seems it can't find a file. Catch that IO exception
It only appears when the file is missing and it does not seem to run when started as a screensaver after timeout. I get an exception.

Also some special symbols are not changed, such as &nbsp. Look into how the forum translates written text to put to the DB and parse accordingly when you grab the text.
Also make it install itself as a legit screensaver, so the user doesn't have to copy it himself.
Adding an icon to it would make it more pleasant. You can apply one of the icons I made when releasing stuff in EZ name. See attachment.

[BlueTree]

Wow nicely done! Can't wait till the official version comes out!