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Article #568Re: Preventing the screen saver from activating
From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:59
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:59
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"Kris" <x@x.com> wrote in message news:47c523d4@newsgroups.borland.com... > So, I wrote a small utility that periodically moves the mouse > cursor a bit and thus - I assumed - would reset the Windows > inactivity timer. Hence no screensaver should ever pop-up. I wrote my own utility to prevent the screen saver from running, but I took a different approach with it. Instead of simulating activity periodically, I actually intercept the notification that the OS sends out just prior to starting the screen saver. The problem is that the notification is only sent to the foreground application, so I use a global hook to look for that notification in all running processes. > Anyway, I assumed that simulating mouse activity would prevent > the screensaver from popping up. But it doesn't... Try using mouse_event() instead. That is a lower-level function that the mouse driver itself calls. SetCursorPos() may be too higher level to effect the screen saver tracking logic. Gambit
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X-Google-Thread: 10cc67,abe368cd9dc323e7 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cc67,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: "Remy Lebeau \(TeamB\)" <no.spam@no.spam.com> Newsgroups: borland.public.cppbuilder.nativeapi References: <47c523d4@newsgroups.borland.com> Subject: Re: Preventing the screen saver from activating Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:59:29 -0800 Lines: 25 Organization: Lebeau Software X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3138 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.178.157.90 Message-ID: <47c5a4e6$1@newsgroups.borland.com> X-Trace: newsgroups.borland.com 1204135142 207.178.157.90 (27 Feb 2008 09:59:02 -0700) Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!213.200.89.82.MISMATCH!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsgroups.borland.com!not-for-mail