How to prevent the user from clicking 'Test' in Screen Savers (Was: ScreenSaverView gets instantiated several times)

2009-10-05 Thread Gabriel Zachmann
Thanks a lot for all the responses, and sorry for bothering you again with this. The problem I'm having is the following: is there an elegant way to prevent the user from clicking the 'Test' button in the Screen Savers panel in System Preferences? The reason why I'm asking: when the user

Re: How to prevent the user from clicking 'Test' in Screen Savers (Was: ScreenSaverView gets instantiated several times)

2009-10-05 Thread Jack Carbaugh
Why not just fake it ... in other words ... since it's a test, just supply some generic data for the screen saver to display. Then, when they truly activate it, you provide the real data. Seems that's what others have done, that i've experienced. Not knowing for sure or not, but i believe

Re: How to prevent the user from clicking 'Test' in Screen Savers (Was: ScreenSaverView gets instantiated several times)

2009-10-05 Thread Michael Babin
On Oct 5, 2009, at 10:45 AM, Gabriel Zachmann wrote: The problem I'm having is the following: is there an elegant way to prevent the user from clicking the 'Test' button in the Screen Savers panel in System Preferences? The reason why I'm asking: when the user changes the configuration

Re: How to prevent the user from clicking 'Test' in Screen Savers (Was: ScreenSaverView gets instantiated several times)

2009-10-05 Thread Paul M
This is a much better approach IMO. If your user is trying out a bunch of options to find a particular combination that works for them, and the machine goes away for ~30 secs each time they test a new change, the'll get pretty irriated with your screen saver pretty quickly. Showing the