Re: Screensaver Question
- From: "Dan Freeman" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 09:15:38 -0700
You and I read the question differently.
You read "wake up" and I read "disable". The latter should never be done at
the application level.
If I wanted the former, I'd probably try something like
MOUSE AT Mrow()+10,Mcol()+10
IOW, move the mouse which should wake up the screen saver just fine. ;-)
Dan
Andrew Howell wrote:
> "Dan Freeman" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OZhQhXFyFHA.1456@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> If I was using a piece of software that turned off my screensaver,
>> I'd uninstall that software immediately.
>
> Why?
> It doesn't disable it altogether, just stops screensaving as if you'd
> pushed a mouse or key etc.
> Screensaving is pretty much useless for the purpose it was invented
> for, CRTs for years have not suffered badly from screen burn, they
> have also supported low power standby modes for years which are
> better at it and it is irrelevant for LCDs.
> That leaves it serving the functions of advertising, distributed
> processing apps (boinc etc.) or just eye candy.
>
> I had a bash at those functions and got a similar result as you lh,
> the function call was returning 1 signalling it had completed but I
> could neither activate nor deactivate the screensaver
> programmatically. I also apparently couldn't correctly determine
> whether the screen saver was active or not but I got other functions
> working properly from the same dll.
>
> I tried KEYBOARD but that only stuffs data into the keyboard buffer
> and doesn't trigger a "keypress" event or whatever it is that stops
> the screensaver.
> Only other thing I can think of is if you could use a keyboard wedge
> card reader instead of a serial one but even if you can, you probably
> have stronger reasons for not wanting to change that.
.
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