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michaewlewis:
I mentioned this idea a while ago in another part of the forum, but am wondering if I put it in the wrong section.

The idea is to have a screensaver that refreshes the pixels on the screen but keeps updating the current data on the screen.
The DimScreen screensaver does this when the screen is dimmed. It continues to update information on the screen until the selected screensaver kicks in (which I can tell it to do after three hours). But that's only half of what I want.....

Could a new program be made (or a version update to DimScreen) that dims the screen (or not), continuously updates information displayed on the screen, and moves some pixels around to keep them from getting stuck? I think an inverse vertical line of 1-10 pixels could move from left to right would do the trick, or maybe bouncing bubbles like the screensaver in vista and win7.

I know some people say that LCD monitors don't suffer from burn in, but I see it happen all the time. I work at a water/wastewater treatment plant and the screens have to be on 24x7 and they display the same header and footer on the screen for months at a time, which get stuck in place even on the best of monitors.

If someone could help me out with this, that would be great. Thanks. :)

rsteward:
All, I've been wanting this for a long time.  Thanks to Michaewlewis for renewing my interest in it.  I did a little searching and stumbled on xyz's example of how to do it.  

http://www.geekpedia.com/tutorial65_How-to-make-a-screen-saver.html

You can download the SCRs made from the example code but I would like to see it enhanced a little.  I would like to see it use the "Settings" button on the Display Properties | Screen Saver tab.  I'd like to be able to select the BMP or JPG I want to use and set the transparency percentage.

How about it?  Any takers?

scancode:
InvertSaver
a transparent screensaver with color inversion and vertical shifting
Installation instructions: copy to any folder, right click, install

18:08 19/12/2010
* First public releaseVB6 runtimes required on Windows 9x/NT/2000

mouser:
neat.

though i wonder if something that only briefly changes a pixel and then puts it back to original state is going to do anything to avoid burn it, since the pixel will be it's original color for 99% of the time.. maybe what's needed is to move across the entire screen, inverting everything and then undoing it, etc., so that pixels stay changed for a prolonged period.

ps. only affects primary monitor, for what it's worth.

scancode:
neat.
-mouser (December 19, 2010, 03:19 PM)
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Thanks

maybe what's needed is to move across the entire screen, inverting everything and then undoing it, etc., so that pixels stay changed for a prolonged period.
-mouser (December 19, 2010, 03:19 PM)
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There's a slight problem: to do the inversion you take a partial screenshot, invert it, and display it on the screensaver window. Since one of the requirements was that it keeps the data on screen up to date, I don't know how it could be done. (Would be easier if I could find a way to capture everything but a specified window [the screensaver's])

ps. only affects primary monitor, for what it's worth.
-mouser (December 19, 2010, 03:19 PM)
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I don't know how to make it multimon-aware, sorry :(

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