playing your own custom screen saver

[aspiring_geek]

Is there an api or class for screen savers. I want to add a screen saver to my program and be able to set how long it takes to kick in and be able to play videos/slideshows randomly as screensavers. Alternatively if someone knows how to do it with xp how can i add a list of videos to be played randomly. I know xp can play slides of your pictures but can you do this with videos.
Thank you

[TT(n)]

I don't know of a class for it yet, but you can use the following API, and function to obtain, the number of milliseconds since the last input(key/mouse).

    Private Structure PLASTINPUTINFO
        Public cbSize, dwTime As Int32
    End Structure

    Private Declare Function apiGetLastInputInfo Lib "user32" Alias "GetLastInputInfo" (ByRef plii As PLASTINPUTINFO) As Int32
    Private Declare Function apiGetTickCount Lib "kernel32" Alias "GetTickCount" () As Int32

    Private Function GetLastInput() As Int32
        Dim li As New PLASTINPUTINFO
        li.cbSize = Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.SizeOf(li)
        apiGetLastInputInfo(li)
        GetLastInput = (apiGetTickCount - li.dwTime)
    End Function

    Private Sub Timer1_Elapsed(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs) Handles Timer1.Elapsed
        Me.Text = GetLastInput()
    End Sub

[javajawa]

Are you talking about making your own screen saver? There are actually just normal programs which have been renamed as .scr, and they have a few standard control inputs.
A quick search on google should should turn up the skeleton code to desgin your own screensaver.

[dglienna]

How about a different image on dual-monitors for the screen saver?