Project Description
Screensaver for Windows displaying (random) quotes from a file.
Quotes file
The file containing quotes is an XML- or JSON-file containing a serialized list of Quote objects.
The XML must have the following structure:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ArrayOfQuote
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<Quote>
<Author>John Crichton</Author>
<Source>Farscape</Source>
<Year>1999</Year>
<QuoteText>
<string>Look upward, and share...</string>
<string>the wonders I have seen.</string>
</QuoteText>
</Quote>
</ArrayOfQuote>
The JSON must have the following structure:
[
{
"Author": "John Crichton",
"Source": "Farscape",
"Year": "1999",
"QuoteText": [
"Look upward, and share...",
"the wonders I have seen."
]
}
]
Use the screensaver
A screensaver in Windows is nothing more than an executable (EXE) renamed to the extension 'SCR'.
Place the SCR-file in %SYSTEMROOT%\System32 (c:\windows\system32\) and it will be available in the settings. The quotes.xml or quotes.json can be located anywhere. The location can be set using the screensaver settings.
Features
The screensaver has the following features:
- Browse for custom quotes file;
- Select preferred font and color;
- Set text alignment;
- Auto: Align lines left and right for even and uneven lines. If text is wider than half a screen align with layout area, if text is less wide than half a screen, align width center screen;
- Left: All lines are aligned left;
- Right: All lines are aligned right;
- Center: All lines are aligned center;
- Shrink to fit screen; Shrink font so every lines fits on to the screen. If not enabled lines will be word wrapped;
- Browse for custom background image;
- Set custom background color;
- Set image alignment;
- Fit: Resize image to fit within screen-boundaries. Keeps aspect ratio, and doesn't clip image;
- Stretch: Resize image to fit within screen-boundaries. Keeps aspect ratio, and does clip image;
- Center: Centers the image without scaling, and clips image if needed;
- Tile: Tiles the image without scaling, and clips image if needed;
- Opacity: Fades the background image using the background color;
- Preview from Settings;
- Quotes Editor from Settings;