screensaver

One solution that one could suggest is to periodically look for a special 'Screen-saver' desktop, and if it's present then count it as a running screensaver. But apparently this is not the case for all screensavers as with some the mentioned desktop is always present. Are there more reliable solutions for this? I think the key is to identify the screensaver by its window class ("WindowsScreenSaverClass"). I found this page How do I start, detect and stop screen savers? that has some code examples and explanations. See the WINAPI function SystemParametersInfo() with the SPI

How to turn screensaver on (windows 7) by a code (in cmd)? Grant Wagner Does the following meet your requirements? start logon.scr /s As long as the .scr is on the PATH the above command should work. EDIT: I don't know if Windows 7 comes with logon.scr , make sure you're testing it with a .scr that is actually installed in Windows 7. Note that I got the idea of just invoking the .scr with /s from Screensaver Sample Command Line Options : When Windows runs your screensaver, it launches it with one of three command line options: /s – Start the screensaver in full-screen mode. /c – Show the

Is there an event fired when screensaver starts? Like for keychain locking: OSStatus keychain_locked(SecKeychainEvent keychainEvent, SecKeychainCallbackInfo *info, void *context){...} Finally found it — the solution is to use NSDistributedNotificationCenter and observe folowing events com.apple.screensaver.didstart com.apple.screensaver.willstop com.apple.screensaver.didstop com.apple.screenIsLocked com.apple.screenIsUnlocked Like [[NSDistributedNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserver:self selector:@selector(screensaverStarted:) name:@"com.apple.screensaver.didstart" object:nil]; While

I wrote a program that solves mazes with depth-first search. I was wondering how to turn this Java program into a Screensaver application? Is there a way that Windows 7 starts my app when the screensaver would normally be activated? A Windows screen saver is just program that accepts certain command line arguments . So in order to have your program be runnable as a screen saver you must code it to accept those arguments. Next you will probably want your screen saver to run in full screen mode. This is very simple to do in Java as the example below shows: public final class ScreenSaver { public

I need to write a python script which opens a website and when the website is completly opened it takes a screenshot of the opened website. I wrote sth like this: import webbrowser import wx wx.App() link = "http://stackoverflow.com/questions" webbrowser.get('firefox %s').open_new_tab(link) screen = wx.ScreenDC() size = screen.GetSize() bmp = wx.EmptyBitmap(size[0], size[1]) mem = wx.MemoryDC(bmp) mem.Blit(0, 0, size[0], size[1], screen, 0, 0) del mem bmp.SaveFile('screenshot.png', wx.BITMAP_TYPE_PNG) It only opens a new tab in firefox but it doesnt take a screenshot of it :( I want the

I have a desktop application in which I would like to know two things: Is the user currently on the PC (more specifically, is he giving any input to the PC), so I can change his state to "away" if needed; and Is the screensaver running right now, so I can perform more CPU intensive work during that time. I'm using C#/.NET. How would you suggest to tackle these two tasks? NOTE : WIN32 invocation will be just as good, as well as any unmanaged code solution. Phill http://dataerror.blogspot.com/2005/02/detect-windows-idle-time.html ^ Detect Windows Idle Time. :) The enabler for this feature is the