Creating a project for a screensaver application
by Dawid Gorny, Rui Madeira
Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook
- Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Cinder Creative Coding Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Authors
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Getting Started
- Introduction
- Creating a project for a basic application
- Creating a project for a screensaver application
- Creating a project for an iOS touch application
- Understanding the basic structure of an application
- Responding to mouse input
- Responding to key input
- Responding to touch input
- Accessing files dropped onto the application window
- Adjusting a scene after resizing the window
- Using resources on Windows
- Using resources on iOS and OS X
- Using assets
- 2. Preparing for Development
- 3. Using Image Processing Techniques
- 4. Using Multimedia Content
- 5. Building Particle Systems
- 6. Rendering and Texturing Particle Systems
- 7. Using 2D Graphics
- 8. Using 3D Graphics
- 9. Adding Animation
- Animating with the timeline
- Creating animation sequences with the timeline
- Animating along a path
- Aligning camera motion to a path
- Animating text – text as a mask for a movie
- Animating text – scrolling text lines
- Creating a flow field with Perlin noise
- Creating an image gallery in 3D
- Creating a spherical flow field with Perlin noise
- 10. Interacting with the User
- 11. Sensing and Tracking Input from the Camera
- 12. Using Audio Input and Output
- Index
In this recipe, we will learn how to create a project for a desktop screensaver for both Windows and Mac OS X.
To get ready with TinderBox, please refer to the Getting ready section of the previous Creating a project for a basic application recipe.
We'll use TinderBox, a utility tool that comes bundled with Cinder that allows easy creation of projects. Perform the following steps to create a project for a screensaver application:
- Open TinderBox and choose your project's location. In the main TinderBox window select Screensaver as Target and OpenGL as Template, as shown in the following screenshot:
- Select the compilers you want to create a project to, either Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 and/or OS X Xcode.
- Click on Create and TinderBox will direct you to the folder where your project was created.
TinderBox will create both a project for you and link it against the compiled Cinder library. It will also create the application's class and make it a subclass of ci::app::AppScreenSaver, which is the class with all the basic functionality for a screensaver application. It will also create some sample code with a basic example to help you get started.
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