you asking if theres a way to build a full screen widget that could run animations and or video? good question...

Well not necessarily full screen, sizable like the picture frames widgets. That would allow for more fexibility in working with the desktop.   

Is this where we put a call out for RomanDA?

Well lets see if anyone else has any ideas.   

Well maybe this is one of those things that has to thought about for a while.

Could be the answer is something other than using DX.

It maybe that it can't be done, or just the way to write the code to do it hasn't jumped out at anyone yet.

Ah, I'm just a user of the software, you smart guys are going to have to help here.

At any rate it would be nice to be able to run a screen saver on top of your desktop within a sizable viewer, someday.   

Nice question and ya it can be done, nicely. Your question just forces me to think about a dreamscene equivalent desktop on XP. I think Almost everything is possible through DX cause it allows scripting.

If one has a slideshow widget or object then in the script one can easily change the timer, means if one has a sequence of images which one want to run as an animation or something like that then setting the timer to lower value will be OK. If one wants the animations to be as a wallpaper than setting the object to the desktop level is fine and if one wants to run it as screensaver then set the object as always on top and following this script with some enhancement will do this..

Dim ocx, ocy, Xtime

Sub Object_OnScriptEnter
ocx = system.cursorx 'old cursor positions
ocy = system.cursory
Object.SetTimer 1, Xtime/1000 'Xtime is the time in seconds you want for the screensaver to pop up
End Sub

Sub Object_OnTimer1
If system.cursorX = ocx and system.cursorY = ocy then 'means the cursor positions remains same and the mouse is idle
Object.visible = true ' if you want some other object which is a flash or a video then just alter the name of the object.
Object.SetTimer 2, 100
Object.killtimer 1
End If
ocx = system.cursorX ' again setting the positions so that timer will examine them in next cycle
ocy = system.cursorY
End Sub

Sub Object_OnTimer2
If system.cursorX = ocx and system.cursorY = ocy then
'do nothing
else ' means the mouse has moved and isnt idle
object.visible = false
Object.killtimer 2
Object.SetTimer 1, Xtime/1000
End If
ocx = system.cursorx 'Resetting the positions again
ocy = system.cursory
End Sub

You can just replace the object.visible = true to resizing object to system.ScreenX and object.visble=false to a specific size which you want it to be when screensaver is off or you just have a resizer object or right click menu.

I m not pretty sure about the script because I havent tested it. The idea just popped up in my mind when i saw the question. There may be some other ideas but the basis will be same.

If I will get this correctly done then I will surely add the picture slideshow screensaver in my wallchanger which is in progress..