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				 OT: One-color Lava Lamp 
 With C++, I made this near thingie that slowly changes color in full-screen. It requires DirectX 8.1. Press any color to exit. Tell me what you think   |  
	
		
	
	
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				 Re: OT: One-color Lava Lamp 
 It's glowy! A nice no-nonsense screen saver or night light.    
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				 Re: OT: One-color Lava Lamp 
 You might want to have it detect mouse clicks as well as key presses. |  
	
		
	
	
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				 Re: OT: One-color Lava Lamp 
 Tried that, but it kept closing right after it started up. |  
	
		
	
	
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				 Re: OT: One-color Lava Lamp 
 I could never figure out how to do those plasma thingies. 
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 Not bad at all... I need to learn DX9.  I've done openGL, before, and I wasn't too impressed.Is it on a time controlled loop to prevent going faster or slower on different computers?
 
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				 Re: OT: One-color Lava Lamp 
 Put a one-second delay before it tests for a mouse press.That should work.
 
 IF you're testing for a mouse move, test to see if it has moved MORE that x pixels (x about 5 or 10), and not just if it moved at all.
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				 Re: OT: One-color Lava Lamp 
 I just had it to where if the program was sent a WM_MOUSEMOVE event, it posted the quit message. 
 The program uses SetTimer() in order to keep it at a steady pace. SetTimer() calls TimerProc() every 25 milliseconds to change the global color values.
 
 This isn't that advanced, it just clears the screen in a slowly shifting color.
 
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		| NullAshton said: I just had it to where if the program was sent a WM_MOUSEMOVE event, it posted the quit message.
 
 The program uses SetTimer() in order to keep it at a steady pace. SetTimer() calls TimerProc() every 25 milliseconds to change the global color values.
 
 This isn't that advanced, it just clears the screen in a slowly shifting color.
 
 On another note, I never knew that all these people on these fourms programmed in C++...
 
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