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From: Mike Collins
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 21:32

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Hi all, just a quick question.

I'm developing an application and I want to stop the Windows Screen Saver
from starting whilst the application is running.  I've achieved this in the
passed by handling the WM_SYSCOMMAND / SC_SCREENSAVE within a Message
Processing method i.e.

void __fastcall TForm1::ProcessMessage (TMsg &message, bool &handled)
{
  if (message.message == WM_SYSCOMMAND
      && message.wParam == SC_SCREENSAVE)
  {
    handled = true;
  }
  else
  {
   handled = false;
  }
}

-this seemed to work fine under Windows 95 / 98, but i've just tried it
under Win2K and it doesn't work!

Any ideas why??

Thanks in advance,

Mike C

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