I'm looking for an application that would lock my computer and display a screensaver with an away message that I set when I lock it. The idea is that when I go off somewhere during work, my co-workers would know where I'm off to instead of puzzling over my empty desk. Does such an application exist? If not, how would I go about making...
For a particular application, I need the screen saver to be disabled while it's running. The operator COULD manually turn it off, and then back on later, but the easiest thing to do would be to just keep the screen saver at bay while the application is running. How do I do this? I've found code for actually turning off the screen saver...
Hopefully this is a simple one, but can anyone provide some simple c# code that will launch the currently configured screensaver? ...
If i were developing a screensaver using a windows.form in C# how would i support multiple monitors? obviously i need a way to enumerate the monitors and maybe create forms for them too or just fade to black? Has anyone solved this? Any insight would be helpful, what's the best approach? ...
I have a long-running GUI application that outputs various statuses to the user. The user wants to view every status but doesn't want to worry about the screensaver kicking in after the inactivity settings. Preferably in C#, how do I read the screensaver/power scheme settings (so I can reapply them when my app exits) and use settings a...
I'm looking for a decent, non-lame way to inhibit xscreensaver, kscreensaver, or gnome-screensaver, whichver might be running, preferably in a screensaver-agnostic manner, and it absolutely positively must execute fast. I've read the xscreensaver FAQ ( http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html ). I have a gtk based game program that's c...
Is there a recommended way to prevent the Windows screensaver from starting? The closest thing I've found is this article, but what I would really like to do is just tell Windows that the computer isn't idle rather than fooling with the currently set screensaver values. ...
One solution that one could suggest is to periodically look for a special 'Screen-saver' desktop, and if it's present then count it as a running screensaver. But apparently this is not the case for all screensavers as with some the mentioned desktop is always present. Are there more reliable solutions for this? ...
Could I create an iPhone app that replaces/modifies the default clock screen saver and show something else instead (e.g. my own special clock or whatever)? How do I go about doing that? I'd appreciate a link to a tutorial on the subject, or to example code that does something like this. (disclaimer: total iPhone dev noob here) ...
I'm attempting to compile a screensaver using Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition SP1 on Windows XP. I get a runtime error: "The procedure entry point ChangeWindowMessageFilter() could not be located in the dynamic link library USER32.dll." As far as I can tell, this is because Microsoft botched the scrnsave.lib library included in VS 2008 t...
What I'm actually trying to do is put a WebKitView into a ScreenSaver (which inherits NSView). I'm totally new to MacOS X and Cocoa (but I'm very familiar with Objective-C and used some parts of GNUStep). Do I need some laying out? I want to show only one control in the whole NSView. ...
REASON: I'm working on an emergency alert application that needs to display information on a desktop. When the client receives an alert, it pops up a window. If a screensaver is active or the monitor is in standby the alert will not be visible. I'm wondering if it's possible to wake the computer up via some sort of programatic mouse m...
One of our products is a screensaver that plays movies using DirectShow. In XP this screensaver works when no one is logged in. In Vista no movies are played when no one is logged in. The reason is that "CoCreateInstance" fails with error code 0x80070005 (= "Access Is Denied"). This is the code we use to initialize DirectShow: HRESULT ...
I don't really know where to begin. Let's start with the stupid questions: What language should I use for this? What is suited for the task at hand? Next, the real ones: Is there a way to stop the screensaver from starting, short of changing the cursor position? If not, will changing the cursor position even work? ...
I want my screensaver appears in the screensaver preview box? ...
I'd like to invoke the user's screen saver if such is defined, in a Windows environment. I know it can be done using pure C++ code (and then the wrapping in C# is pretty simple), as suggested here. Still, for curiosity, I'd like to know if such task can be accomplished by purely managed code using the dot net framework (version 2.0 and a...
I was wondering if there was any decent way, other than NSLog-ing just about everything - to properly debug a Screensaver app bundle in OS X? The "Screensaver" is a project type in XCode, but there's obviously no Build and Go debugging. Further, I've found that in fact my bundle is getting loaded in to the /System/Library/Framework...
Does anyone have a link or document on how to write a screensaver for Linux? ...
I want to run a full-screen application as a screen saver. Is it possible in Linux? It seems that XScreenSaver is not capable of doing this and GnomeScreenSaver has this in their wish list. ...
Does screen saver require any manifest file? I'm renaming the .exe to .scr file. Right now i am not using any manifest file for the screen saver. But if if UAC is enabled, my screen saver crashes. How to by pass this UAC thing ? ...