How to intercept the screen saver ?

[Lui_Gui]

Hi,

I would like my app to intercept the initiation of the screen saver. In otherwords, I want to have my app executed instead of the screen saver. I basically want to detect no activity and slap the user in the face to wake him up. Can ne1 show me how to set this up ?

Thanx...Lou


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Lou Santospirito
LSDP Consulting Services, Inc.
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[Buzby]

Why not create your app as a screensaver. You can do that in VB.
Create a form, set it's windowstate to maximised. Create a mousemove and a keydown event to unload and end the program.
On the project properties change the project name to

SCRNSAVE:[name of screensaver]

eg; SCRNSAVE:Flying Windows

(it may actually be the App Title you need to change on the Make tab of project properties - I haven't done this for ages!)

Make the .EXE but save it as [filename].SCR and save it into the Windows directory. Voila - you have a screensaver.

For more info, I know there is an article on the Microsoft Knowledge Base all about making screensavers with VB.



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Mark "Buzby" Beeton
VB Developer
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