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"Now Playing" as Screensaver?
FrankX Posted on: Feb 5 2007, 03:02 PM


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I've been having a play with the standard Windoze XP "3d Text" Screensaver to try and help solve this one... You know the one that rocks 3d text on the screen.

Anyhow, the text that the screensaver should display is held in the registry in ...
CODE
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Screensavers\Text3D]


I have been trying the following preset ...

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/template: (C:\np3DtxtScrnSvr.in) C:\np3DtxtScrnSvr.out

/exec: (C:\WINDOWS\regedit.exe /s) C:\np3DtxtScrnSvr.out


This has the file np3DtxtScrnSvr.in with the following ...

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[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Screensavers\Text3D]
"AllScreensSame"=dword:00000000
"SurfaceType"=dword:00000001
"Specular"=dword:00000001
"SurfaceColor"=dword:00777777
"CustomTexture"=""
"CustomEnvironment"=""
"UseCustomColor"=dword:00000000
"UseCustomTexture"=dword:00000000
"UseCustomEnvironment"=dword:00000000
"MeshQuality"=dword:000001f4
"Size"=dword:0000000a
"RotationSpeed"=dword:0000000a
"RotationStyle"=dword:00000001
"DisplayString"="%name"
"DisplayTime"=dword:00000000
"FontWeight"=dword:00000000
"FontHeight"=dword:00000060
"FontItalic"=dword:01000000
"FontCharSet"=dword:00000001
"FontPitchFamily"=dword:61005400
"FontFace"="Tahoma"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Screensavers\Text3D\Screen 1]
"Leave Black"=dword:00000000
"Disable Hardware"=dword:00000000
"Width"=dword:00000000
"Height"=dword:00000000
"Format"=dword:00000000
"Adapter ID"=hex:e2,1e,b7,d7,24,1a,cf,11,2d,6d,ac,5c,a0,c2,cb,35



... this should output the parsed template to another file called np3DtxtScrnSvr.out (obviously, replacing "DisplayString"="%name" with the NowPlaying info') which is then imported to the registry using the /exec command (regedit.exe /s is silent mode for regedit.)

Unfortuantely, I've not had any success yet as for some reason the /template isn't actually outputting ANYTHING to the .out file. blink.gif And to say I am unformiliar with updating the windows regisrty in this way is a total understatement. lol

But in theory it should work the way will asked for... I'll re-post if I manage to get it working. If anyone spots any probs in my preset plase let me know. (ie. why it isn't outputting anything to the .out file!? lol)

Luv FrankX
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