Compile to screensaver

[SSH]

Not sure this is an "engine" issue, more of a "compiler" issue, but there's no project for that... but it would be good to be able to create screensavers with AGS, and saving to ".scr" format for Windows, or similar formats for Mac, Linux, etc would be good.

[Wyz]

I've looked into making screen savers with AGS a while ago and there is not an awful lot that needs to be changed. It can be done with the current engine apart for two things: AGS does not like windows-style command-line switches (with forwards slashes) and there is no way to read them in game that I know of. Secondly the code that creates the game window needs to be edited a bit. Windows has a little preview window that shows the screensaver; it uses a command-line switch to pass a handle of the viewer that AGS then needs to draw to: It's pretty easy.
The other flags indicate whether the screensaver should be activated (this should always run the game fullscreen)  or it should show a configuration screen (maybe this should be able to be detected by the developer so he can use a GUI or something).

Btw, worth mentioning is that using command-line switches is the oldschool way of doing it; there have since been a library around but I have no experience using it.

• Version changed from Adventure Game Studio 3.2, AGS 3.2.1, AGS 3.2.2 to github.com/adventuregamestudio/ags