Screentime for Flash - Convert Your SWF into a Great Screensaver

1. You Will Make Amazing Screensavers

   Screentime transforms your Flash animations and web applications into screensavers. With Screentime, anything that is possible in Flash is possible in your Flash screensaver. Include animation, image slide shows, video content, interactivity, web services, and streaming content for great eye-candy or indespensible desktop functionality. Make happy clients... and more of them.

2. Most Trusted Solution - Currently on millions of machines worldwide.

   We've been refining and improving our Flash screensaver builder since 1995, so when you buy Screentime, you're buying the most bullet-proof solution on the market.

3. The only Mac and Windows Solution!

   Screentime is the only Flash native screensaver solution for Mac OS X (10.4 and later), and Windows 95, 98, NT, Me, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7. Whatever platform you have users on today, we have a screensaver creation tool that will do the job.

4. Flash Everywhere Interface

   Screentime V3 enables you to fully customize each aspect of your screensaver using Flash including the screensaver's control panel, settings window, and the installer.Now your Settings window can include controls to change the screensaver's animation speed, text, urls, whatever. No other screensaver solution gives you this option.

5. Easiest for Your Users - "One Click" Install

   End users download and run the installer and your swf becomes their current screensaver. No wizards. No complicated install instructions to follow. No need to open any control panels.

6. Easiest for You - "One Click" Build

   Screentime converts your Flash SWF to a screensaver installer in two easy steps: Drop a SWF into the Content panel window then Click Build. That's it! Add a few more steps and your installer can include a more customized interface.

7. Know Flash? You know Screentime.

   So; you know Flash. What does it take to learn Screentime, you say? Well, Screentime integrates right into the Flash IDE and looks as if it shipped with it. So your "learning curve" is more like a learning blip.

8. It Works!

   What’s that, you say? On the PC, you've found another flash screensaver tool? With just as many features. Maybe "more". And therein lies the problem. Can you say "bloated", "overly complex", "buggy", "Windows-Only", "huge file sizes"? Unfortunately they can, and do. You don't have to worry about these issues with Flash so why should you with your Flash screensaver creator?

9. Desktop APIs

   Screentime extends ActionScript with a custom STF class that enable you to program your screensaver to things Flash can't normally do - download files, set custom wallpapers, read, write, copy and delete files, detect if a computer is connected to the internet and much more.

10. Integrated Support

    Screentime V3 includes a Flash Extension to make your Flash development environment "screensaver Development Ready". The extension integrates Screentime's component, class, and documentation into Flash. The extension enables code completion for STF desktop classes, and installs Screentime documentation in the Flash Help panel.

11. Get Up to Speed Quickly

    We've worked hard on making Screentime "just work" but of course you'll have questions. So, We've put a lot of effort into high quality, readily accessible documentation and samples.

12. Run-Time Debugging

    Screentime V3 enables you to log debug messages during screensaver execution.

13. Support

    All technical support calls are handled within one business day and free of charge. When you call during our business hours, you'll talk to a real person. And unlike other companies, the programmers who wrote the code are in the office backing up the support staff everyday.

Screentime Details

• Features
  • Builder
  • screensaver
  • Control Panel
  • Settings Window
  • Installer
• How to make screensavers for both Mac and Windows
• Licensing

Features -- screensaver Builder

• SCREENTIME Macintosh creates screensavers for Mac OS X.
• SCREENTIME Windows creates screensavers for 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, Vista, Vista 64. and Windows 7.
• Simplified build process - Create a professional screensaver in 3 steps. Just drag and drop your screensaver swf onto SCREENTIME, name your saver, and press build. Create more sophisticated screensavers with a few extra steps.
• WYSIWYG interface (Windows) - SCREENTIME "workspace" panel shows you how your project will look before you build it. See the screensaver's control panel, settings window and installer - without leaving SCREENTIME for Flash.
• Preview screensaver - View your screensaver full-screen as it will actually appear before you build it - without leaving SCREENTIME for Flash.
• Screensaver Project File - Save content and configurations for every screensaver you build for later use.

Features -- screensaver

• Full Flash Support - Anything you create in Flash 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 will play as a Mac or Windows screensaver.
• Full screensaver API Support - All Mac and Windows OS screensaver interfaces are customizable with Flash.
• NEW STF Classes - Cross-platform commands that give you powerful access to the Mac and Windows desktop API. These new functions expand what is possible with Flash-based screensavers, with the ability to download files, set custom wallpapers, read, write, copy and delete files, detect if a computer is connected to the internet and much more - all from within Flash, using ActionScript 1.0 or 2.0. AS3 support is coming soon.
• Interactivity Support - Allow the user to move the mouse and/or press keys and include games, links, user preferences, etc.
• Runtime Debugging - Trace commands to a log file during screensaver playback.
• Support for external files - Include and install additional images, XML, swf files.
• Expiration support - Create expiring demo screensavers.
• Multiple monitor support - Your screensavers play over multiple monitor configurations.
• Customizable Icons - Your screensavers can have your own custom icons.
• Advanced Hibernation Support (Windows) - Computer vendors implement hibernation in a variety of ways. We support them all.
• Customizable Icons - Your screensavers can have your own custom icons.

Features -- Control Panel

• Customizable Preview Monitor - Use any Flash swf in the Windows Display Properties for your screensaver. The Mac will display your screen saver.

Features -- Settings Window

• Customizable Settings window - Include an additional swf file that can control variables in your screensaver.
• Optional Mute check box - Allow end users to turn your screensaver's sound on and off from the Settings window. On the mac this is done in your Settings Window swf.
• Optional Web site hyperlink - Define a button to launch a Web page from your screensaver's Settings window. On the Mac this is done in your Settings Window swf.

Features -- Installer

• One-Click installer - SCREENTIME creates a self-contained installer.
• Customizable interface - Include an additional Flash swf that will play during your Windows screensaver installation. The Mac version enables you to customize the installer window with a PICT image.
• Customizable Icons - Use custom icons for your screensavers installer.
• Open Display Properties after install - Automatically open the screensaver Display Properties control panel after the installation is complete.
• UltraSqueeze compression - Built-in file compression makes your installer file smaller - down to 1 MB.
• Quiet installer option - In the Quiet mode, your installer will not display any messages - but your screensaver still becomes the currently selected screensaver.
• Optional license - Display your own license text file with accompanying Accept and Decline buttons.
• Optional ReadMe - Include an additional text file with your screensaver.

How to make screensavers for both Mac and Windows

1) Create your content using Adobe Flash on either Mac or Windows. Publish your content as a SWF file.

2) Run your SWF through SCREENTIME on the platform you wish to create the screensaver for.

• Screentime for Mac runs on the Mac and makes Mac OS X screensavers.
• Screentime for Windows runs on Windows and makes Windows screensavers.

Licensing/Pricing

License

Screentime includes an distribution license that enables you to create and distibute as many screensavers as you need, many SCREENTIME screensavers are running on millions of computers worldwide.

SCREENTIME End Users License Agreement (EULA)

Requirements for Screentime:

Screentime Windows converts SWFs to screensavers for Windows OS - Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows ME, and Windows 98 with IE 5.5 or later.

Screentime Mac converts SWFs to screensavers for Mac OS - Mac OS X 10.4 or later.

A Flash SWF - Actionscript 2.0 or 3.0.

Screensaver playback will match the performance of the SWF being played as a fullscreen Flash projector. If the screensaver is running on a machine with two monitors, performance will match two instances of the Flash projector, each running fullscreen on one of the monitors.