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Others may have a legit point to go the other way, but I would undo
any calls to turn it off.
If the way we're disabling the screen saver involves changing a system
setting that would leave the state as the system left it, then what if
the user didn't have a screensaver set when
al_set_screensaver_active(true) is called?
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Trent Gamblin <trent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, October 31, 2008 10:44 am, Miquel 'Fire' Burns said:
>> Sadly no. I do remember seeing such code however. Maybe it's in the
>> archives here?
>
> Ok, I've found it as part of WM_SYSCOMMAND. I've tested it and it
> works.
>
> One issue though. If the screensaver is already deactivated by the
> user, should al_set_screensaver_active(true) turn it on or should it
> just undo any calls the user made to turn it off in the Allegro
> program? The problem with turning it on if it's disabled is the
> program could crash and leave the screensaver enabled.
>
> Trent :{)>
>
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