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Re: Screensaver defeat for Win32by hessef (Monk) |
on Jan 19, 2004 at 16:14 UTC ( [id://322376]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I agree with the previous poster, that the shutoff system should be a Big Red Button and not a keyboard. (semi-off topic) I had a somewhat similar problem in a C++ app. My program recorded audio and many people were recording long documents, not touching the keyboard/mouse while speaking and having the screen saver kick in. I fixed the problem by turning the screen saver off during recordings with the following Microsoft's Visual C++ code: (turn off the screen saver) SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE, FALSE, 0, 0) (turn on the screen saver) SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE, TRUE, 0, 0) While that isn't perl code, it might be possible for Perl to make a similiar system call. I don't know, but I'm placing the information here anyways in case it might help somebody wants to start looking for another way to turn off the screen saver.
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