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Sadly no. I do remember seeing such code however. Maybe it's in the
archives here?
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Trent Gamblin <trent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, October 31, 2008 6:56 am, Miquel 'Fire' Burns said:
>> Actually, I know there's a way to disable the screensaver without
>> screwing up the user's settings. There's a message that is sent to
>> all
>> the programs when Windows decides to turn on the screensaver, and
>> even
>> one (same or different, I don't know) to turn off the monitor, and a
>> certain response will stop the screensaver from activating.
>>
>> And if the program crashes badly enough that it's shutdown routines
>> fail to run (power outage being the best example), then the
>> screensaver will remain in tack.
>
>
> Do you have any more details? The most likely candidate I found was
> WM_APPCOMMAND but the docs don't mention anything about
> screensavers.
>
> Trent :{)>
>
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