Greetings!
  A great many people have asked about how to create a Windows 3.1
screen saver in VB. It's actually not so tough. There are only a few
things you need to know. First, screen savers are really just EXEs
that have been renamed. Second, when these EXEs are run, the are
called with command line arguments based on what operation is
needed. If the screen is to be saved, the "-s" parameter is passed
on the command line (retrievable via COMMAND$). If the screen
saver is to be configured, a "-c" is passed on the command line.
Therefore, your "Startup Form" should be Sub Main in a module rather
than a form. From within this routine, you check Command$ and .Show
either the save form or the config form.
  The config form should have some way of saving configuration info
like a private INI file (I don't believe in adding things to the
WIN.INI that don't represent system information but that's just me).
The "save" form should be created without the title bar, the control
box, without a border and without the Min/Max buttons. When launched,
it should maximize to take up the whole screen. You can then draw
all over it in any way you wish. The _KeyDown, _MouseMove and
_MouseDown events should all have the END statment in them.
  The final tidbit is that you need to specially name the EXE in the
"Make EXE" dialog. The name must be in the form

                  SCRNSAVE SaverName

where SaverName is the name you want to have appear in the control panel.
After you create the EXE, you rename it to .SCR and copy it to the
Windows directory and you're done. That's all there is to it. I have
uploaded the file SSAVE.ZIP to Lib 1 which contains a sample. -=- Jonathan
