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Remembering the lovely eSheep (stray sheep) from 1995 -
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Can sheeps display on screen loacked? #100

Open nosiyBUGS opened 2 years ago

nosiyBUGS commented 2 years ago

Can sheeps display on screen loacked?

Adrianotiger commented 2 years ago

No, this is not possible in Windows. Applications does not have any access on a locked screen for security reasons. An application is able to show a notification icon on the lock screen, but not to be executed or to show something itself (only over a windows notification message)

nosiyBUGS commented 2 years ago

But some screensavers did   it.

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No, this is not possible in Windows. Applications does not have any access on a locked screen for security reasons. An application is able to show a notification icon on the lock screen, but not to be executed or to show something itself (only over a windows notification message)

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Eric2XU commented 2 years ago

@nosiyBUGS as a IT admin of 20 years I can tell you that the lock screen is very much hands off to developers. You are correct that technically a screensaver would be allowed to display over the lock screen but that would be a totally different thing. It wouldn't have the virtual physics that the main pet has. It would just be effectively a animated video loop of sorts that has no overlap with the code of this project.

nosiyBUGS commented 2 years ago

Which means   it   will cause   security leaks or   immoral  privacy   offend

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@nosiyBUGS as a IT admin of 20 years I can tell you that the lock screen is very much hands off to developers. You are correct that technically a screensaver would be allowed to display over the lock screen but that would be a totally different thing. It wouldn't have the virtual physics that the main pet has. It would just be effectively a animated video loop or sorts that has no overlap with the code of this project.

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Adrianotiger commented 2 years ago

You can create a screen saver with this steps:

But it doesn't start over the lock screen.