Activating screensaver (power off screen)

[jaks]

Is there af way to power off a monitor (energy save) form VB?

I would the screen to 'go black/switch off' when a form is empty, and back on when there is something on the form.

Best wishes
Jakob

[Mad Compie]

Yes, SetSystemPowerState does the thing:

Public Declare Function SetSystemPowerState Lib "kernel32" (ByVal fSuspend As Long, ByVal fForce As Long) As Long
...
SetSystemPowerState(1, 0) 'Power down with prompt
...
SetSystemPowerState(1, 1) 'Power down without prompting

It could take some time to recover from power-down to normal state.