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Re: [ECS] killing the screen saver Ingo Pakleppa Fri, 07 Jan 2000 21:42:07 -0800

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I'm not sure if that applies here, but according to the Microsoft Knowledge
Base, this should only work on 95/98. On NT, the screen saver would reset
it's timer only in response to mouse events and not to keyboard events
(interestingly, on 95, it responds only to keyboard but not to mouse
events). Under NT, neither keyboard nor mouse events kill the screen saver.

The knowledge base article where I saw that information is Q201833. You can
find it on http://support.microsoft.com.

Article Q140723 shows how to close the screen saver from within a C program.

Ingo

At 08:50 AM 1/7/2000 -0500, Mark Gilmore wrote:
>Scott,
>Use a KEYBOARD-EVENT Item to simulate a <SHIFT> key
>(you would SET it to DOWN/UP).
>-- 
>Mark Gilmore
>Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
>http://www.usit.com/omnip
>423-745-0026
>
>
>Scott Reston wrote:
>> 
>> has anyone found a way to kick out of screen saver mode in response to an 
>event? i've got a window on my desktop that shows live video from the front 
>door.
>> i've got it set up so that when there's motion at the front door, the 
>video window restores so that it's the top window, but the screen saver 
>still runs and i have to
>> wiggle the mouse or hit a key to stop it so that i can see who's at the 
>door. i've tried setting a key-event up where ECS touches the space-bar 
>(up/down) but
>> that doesn't seem to fake out the screen saver - is it looking for the 
>keyboard port or the mouse port to show activity?
>> 
>> thoughts?
>> 
>> thanks...
>> scott reston
>> ih8gates@concentric.net
>> http://www.indelible-blue.com/meetib/scott/

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