Re: Terminating screen saver programatically

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From: L.J. Wischik
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 00:00

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Jorn Erlend Aaberg Nygjerd  <jorn.nygjerd@ffi.no> wrote:
>When the 5 seconds have elapsed I kill the timer to free system
>resources, and then post or send a message which terminates the screen
>saver (have tried different messages).  This works fine the first time,
>but the screen saver never starts again.  Anotherwords, if my system is
>set to start the screen saver after 1 minute, it does just that.  5
>seconds later the screen saver exits and never appears again even if I
>wait 1,2,3, ... minutes.
>It seems some operating system timer is not reset (not affected by my
>programatically way to end the screen saver), so the operating system
>thinks my screen saver is still running.

Are you using SCRNSAVE.LIB?
Have you done SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SCREENSAVERRUNNING,1,..)
at the start,
and (...,0,...)
at the end?

-- 
Lucian Wischik, Queens' College, Cambridge CB3 9ET. ljw1004@cam.ac.uk

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From: ljw1004@cus.cam.ac.uk (L.J. Wischik)
Subject: Re: Terminating screen saver programatically
Date: 1997/04/28
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