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Using ScreenTime Macintosh - Publishing a Macintosh Screen Saver

1) Setup your screen saver

Start ScreenTime for Flash. The workspace will display a WYSIWYG preview of your screen saver's OS 9 control panel.

Select a Flash swf to use as your screen saver using one of these methods:

Drag and drop a swf on the ScreenTime monitor picture.
Click the Select button and navigate to a swf file.

Name your screen saver

Enter the name your screen saver in the Name text entry box. The name you choose is the name as it will appear in the screen saver control panel. Important: Use no more than 20 characters for your screen saver name.

Interactivity options

Standard screen saver behavior is to exit when the user presses a key or moves the mouse. If you have an interactive screen saver with web links or key input then uncheck Key is Pressed and/or Mouse is Moved . Important! if you uncheck both then make sure you provide another way for the user to quit the screen saver - The STF.quit() command will do it.

Demo Expiration

If you want to release a demo screen saver that will time out, check the "Make DemoVersion" check box and choose a time frame. The screen saver will expire X days from the time you create the screen saver.

Customizing Mac OS 9 Screen Saver Control Panel Logo Graphic

You can add your own graphic to the Mac OS 9 screen saver control panel by clicking the Select button under the LOGO Picture heading and navigating to the graphic file. This graphic must be a PICT file. This graphic is not part of an OS X screen saver.

2) Setup Your Screen Saver's Configure Dialog

Click the Configure button in the navigation bar. The workspace will display a model of your screen saver Configure (Settings) window.

Select a Flash swf to use as your screen saver Configure Dialog window using one of these methods:

Drag and drop a swf on the “Made With ScreenTime” image.
Click the Select button and navigate to a swf file.

This is the swf that will play in the window that appears when you press the Configure button (also titled " Settings" or "Options" button in OS X, depending on the version).

You can use this swf as a controller for the main screen saver swf, setting user preferences for things like volume, and speed. One way to achieve this is use STF.writeString() to write a set of settings and then in you main screen saver swf call STF.readString() to read in the settings and act on them.

2) Setup Your Screen Saver Installer

Click the Installer button in the navigation bar. The workspace will display a model of your screen saver installer window as it will appear to the end user.

Customize Progress Dialog ( Installer Window)

You can customize the installer window with your own graphic. The image should be 350 pixels wide by 150 pixels high. To specify the PICT file do one of the following:

Drag and drop a swf on the “Made With ScreenTime” image.
Click the Select button and navigate to a swf file.

Specify External Files

ScreenTime for Flash enables you to choose a folder that will be installed along with the screen saver. The folder and its entire contents will be installed next to the main screen saver swf.

Example: You have a folder with your main screen saver swf and a folder called “files” in the folder called files there is a file called submovie.swf. To Load submovie.swf into you screen saver when it is playing you would call LoadMovie(“folder/submovie.swf”); to load it.

Build Your Installer

Click either the Build Mac OS X Installer Button or the Build Mac OS 8 & 9 Installe r button. This will wrap all your files and setting up into one self-contained installer file. Important if you plan to transfer the installer across a network or onto a web-server you should stuff (sit) or zip the installer first.

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