Not to be confused with the Mac OS X widgets thread, this is the Mac OS X screen savers thread (this one's even more useless!).

So, way back in the day, I made some screen savers for the Amiga named "LotsaBlankers". Later on, I ported some of them to Windows, and created some new ones, but I never managed to make a stable and functional enough screen saver under Windows that I'd feel like releasing it. But now that I've got Mac OS X, I've started porting some of this old code over, since making screen savers for OS X is pretty easy and fun. First one I've got running is this one:

http://wakaba.c3.cx/releases/mac/LotsaEscher.zip

It's based on the work presented on this site, http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl/, and it is liable to BLOW YOUR MIND, MAAAAN. I've been too lazy to figure out how to make a preferences GUI for it yet, so even though the code supports all the possible different transformations of the image (Some listed here: http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nl/index.php?menu=im&sub=escher), you can't actually pick which one you want yet.

There's likely to be more to come. Enjoy!

Hi, on my computer (iMac 2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X 10.5.7 Leopard, 1920x1200 resolution screen) when LotsaWater starts, there is a colourful corrupted screen displayed for a moment. After that everything works like magic. Would it be possible to smoothen start-up (maybe with a fade in effect)?

Any chance of getting a random option on lotsaescher? Perhaps it would change the frame that is being used after a certain time interval?

Great work here!

-mit3y

What about OS X 10.6 compatibility? (LotsaWater 1.4j is not working)

>>243

When I actually have Snow Leopard I will look into it.

Go download a torrent bitch. We want snow leopard compatibility now... Get it??????

Please. Could you make it (lotsawater) work on snow leopard?

Yes, i realy want the screensaver to work on my Snow Leopard!
:)

lotsawater is the best screensaver ever made!

Tell you what, somebody donate me the money for Snow Leopard and I'll be on it in a flash.

What's your paypal account? ;-)

What's your paypal account? ;-)

Did someone find lotawater for snowleopard?
I really love this screensaver and i'd like to have it again!

I would pay the $29 for you to get snow leopard and fix lotsawater... my mac doesn't feel complete with out it!

>>250

http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/lotsablankers/

I'll donate you
if you can make LotsaWater to work on Snow Leopard
I do love that.
:)

Please, make LotsaWater run on SnowLeopard....

Please, let LotsaWater run on Snow Leopard...

Just chipping in my vote for Snow Leopard support in LotsaGlass.
Many thanks!

Well, since apparently nobody wanted to put their money where they mouth is, I had to get Alexander Strange to help out with compiling and testing, but we did finally get them working. Maybe. Not much testing has been done, so proceed at your own risk.

http://lotsablankers.googlecode.com/files/LotsaEscher1.4.zip
http://lotsablankers.googlecode.com/files/LotsaGlass1.3.zip
http://lotsablankers.googlecode.com/files/LotsaSnow1.4.zip
http://lotsablankers.googlecode.com/files/LotsaWater1.5.zip

Please serve us the "leaves falling screen saver" for autumn version modified the Lotus Snow .

Thanks a lot for the good work ;-)

They are all working fine...

I also have the black screen problem with screen locking on MacBook (1,1) OS X 10.5.8 and LotsaWater 1.5, I deactivated asking for password in order to exit the screensaver and worked with the snapshot.
It used to work as intended under Tiger, even with password on exit, but I really would like it back to work, I need the password on exit and still love this screensaver.

Bye

HEY!! Glad to see LotsaWater working in SnoLeo.

I assume that your paypal addy is the one from the donate link on the main page, but how would you prefer your donation, in USD, CAD, EUROs, etc? I can't quite spare enough for a copy of SnoLeo, but I'd be happy to send $10 USD to go towards it. It's not much I know, but that's all I can really spare at the moment.

Thanks again for your hard work, and if you ever need a guinea pig for testing, feel free to let me know.

trevor.kidd@msn.com

Trevor ;)

>>262

EUR. Also, you can just use the buttons on http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/lotsablankers/.

Thank you! my Snow Leopard is complete with lotsawater!

lotsawater runs with snowleopard perfectly … in preview. with my macbook the screen goes black when the saver is activated and the rain drops on a black screen. in preview it takes the actual screen image. what did i do wrong? thank you!

>>265

That's a Mac OS X security feature when you have screen locking turned on.

Hi, just wanted to let you know, that the new version of LotsaWater no longer has the corrupted screenshot issue that was present on Leopard. Huzzah for that! The greatest screensaver of all time is back in action!

It seems to be running faster under snow leopard, did you use GCD while you were making the new version? I just wonder.

>>268

No, it's pretty much exactly the same code. Funny that.

HOW DO I GET LOST OF WATER TO WORK WITH THE LOCK? HAS THIS BEEN FIGURED OUT YET?

SAME HERE!!! can we fgure out how to mka eit work with the lock on? please!!!

SAME HERE!!! can we fgure out how to mka eit work with the lock on? please!!!

i have an idea. we can make a script that automatically goes off right when the screen saver starts! it will take a snapshot of the screen and it will use that as background!! ok how do we do this?

ok so i have made the fix!!!!
its kinda a workaround...
so you need lotsawater (obviously) and a screensaver called scriptsaver. it will allow you to play a script as screensaver turns on.

using this i set it up as follows:

go into preferences and screensaver
in lotsawater set it to use custom screen. mine is in my documents
go to scriptsaver and options. set it to use my script, which youll just have to copy paste somewhere.... (change 'paths' to your computer settings.)

tell application "Finder"

if exists file "Macintosh HD:Users:'paths':Documents:screen.jpg" then
	set var1 to minutes of (get modification date of (file "Macintosh HD:Users:'paths':Documents:screen.jpg"))
	set var2 to minutes of (current date)
	if var1 is var2 then return
end if

end tell

tell application "ScreenSaverEngine" to quit
delay 1
do shell script "screencapture /Users/'paths'/Documents/screen.jpg"
tell application "ScreenSaverEngine" to activate

well what this does is stops the screen saver checks the last time it was captured (otherwise it will just loop over and over) and takes the capture and resumes screensaver

>>274
is that some kind of COBOL?

>>275
It's AppleScript, which tries very hard to be COBOL.

It seems not to work with snow 10.6.2...

Lotsasnow is very nice! Next time you're playing around do you think you could create an irregular breeze, i.e., one that affected snowflakes differently depending on their size? or that affected all snowflakes equally (in a horizontal direction), but the flakes fell at different rates depending on their size? or both?

Was wondering that for security, there could be a stand alone option for just using the background for the SS rather than a screen snap shot.

I have earthdesk running in the background and would prefer that to be used.

This is a small bu8t significant security issue and it would be easier if just the background as present.

Cheers Hawkeye

Thanx for the superduper screensaver LotsaWater!!

Though, it seems not to work with Snow.. update - 10.6.2. :(

/R

>>280

Are you using the newest version of LotsaWater?

hi -

the issue whereby the screenshot just renders a black screen for the Lotswater background when you have Require Password to wake from Sleep enabled in 10.6 - is it fixed yet?

many thanks for your work!

j x

>>282

For the millionth time, that is an OS X security feature, and there is not really anything LotsaWater can do about it.

what does it mean ?

hmm... my girlfriend loves lotsawater, and so does her roommate. I don't know what's wrong with the rest of the female population!

I'm looking around for a fix on the OS X side for the black screen issue, and I'll post if I come up with anything.