A simple screensaver, thinly wrapping WKWebView.
Inspired by, but shares no code with, WebViewScreenSaver, which, when this project was created, used WebView, which didn't have the sort of performance WKWebView can offer. (Note that this is no longer true so perhaps that might be a better choice for you.)
- Download
Webscreen.zipfrom the latest release and unzip it - Double-click on the
Webscreen.saverfile and install it - Set the URL you want displayed within the screensaver preferences
Note: I believe I have my code signing in order so you shouldn't get any errors or warnings when running this. If you do, please contact me via the email available at https://paulsnar.lv/. Thanks! (This does not extend to the AppWrapper which is, by design, a development tool.)
For developing your screensavers the WebscreenAppWrapper also allows mouse interaction and developer tools. The URL preference sheet is within the application preferences.
Webscreen exposes a simple API to the running webpage, called WSKit. It is currently very limited (and intended to remain so), but it does provide just enough additional information so the running webpage can adjust its behaviour appropriately.
Right now the only available property is configuration – a promise which
resolves to an object containing two properties:
displayis the 1-based index of the display this instance of Webscreen is running on, andtotalDisplaysis the number of displays on this computer.
Currently the WSKit API is exposed to all pages loaded within Webscreen, so if there exists a privacy concern due to which you don't want to share your monitor count with the webpage. it's probably best to stick with version 1.12 instead.
See the WSKit sample for usage.
- The default URL can be changed via the
WSDefaultURLInfo.plist property. Note that this is effective only for the first installation, because then the URL will be persisted to preference storage. If this Info.plist property is changed, either a rebuild or a resigning is necessary – the distributive contains my code signature and that covers Info.plist.