temporarily disable screensaver(s) on various plattforms? Topic is solved

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Hi,

I would like to know how (if) I can temporarily disable the most common screensavers with wxWidgets?

As it is a multi-plattform-media-app (Linux+Windows, maybe MacOS sometime), displaying some images/movies, it would be desirable to switch of the screensavers of at least these systems/platforms, while data is displayed:

Win32,
KDE,
Gnome,
X11

Is that possible at all? If it is not possible with wxWidgets directly has anyone good pointers to information of how I can check if any of these is/are running and how to temp. turn it off?

cu
Stefan

[JimFairway]

Hi Stefan,

On Windows you should be able to call

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SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE, false, 0, 0);

to disable the screen saver. Change the false to true turn it back on.

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724947.aspx

Hope that helps,

Jim