OpenEuphoria

Re: Screen Saver Running?

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail?c?m> Oct 09, 2007
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OtterDad wrote:
> 
> How can I tell from within a Euphoria program if a screen saver has kicked in?
> I have several monitoring programs that bitBlt to the Screen, but die when the
> user's Screen Saver turns on. As much as I'd like to, I cannot simply turn off
> the end user's screen saver when my apps are running. Does the app's window
> size itself go to zero or negative? Am I on the right track here?

Take a look at these two links:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315725
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724947.aspx

...and from winuser.h:
#define SPI_GETSCREENSAVERRUNNING 0x0072

Matt