So I have reach a dead-end in Flash. I now have a Screensavr that works perfectly, honouring all image proportions. Looks great, but runs slowly in Flash as it can’t handle so many individual images as the bitmap processing isn’t sophisticated enough; had to make it so that each row is a series of MovieClips [...]
So while I build up the energy to sort out the flickr Screensavr, I thought I’d upload the screen saver version of Word Clock. Nothing to configure here - just download and install.
Download Word Clock installer for Mac
So here it is. More fiddly than I was anticipating. You must first enter your flickr user-name into the control panel.
Download Mac installer 0.0.2alpha
No Windows version, I don’t have the power. Or the inclination.
Image courtesy of jaypeg.
Hah! See what I did there? It’s a flickr-based screensaver. This is some old slideshow code I had lying around, a nice way to view a stream of images as they scroll by. In these new days of the internet it seemed appropriate for it to read a flickr photostream. It will be available on [...]