I just checked and the screen saver did not interfere in my app.
The screen saver activated after 5 minutes of inactivity. In 10 minutes my form timer fired and ran the EEP right on time. The EEP actually established control and the screen saver deactivated, showing the desktop and messages that were being updated on my form's status box. Looking at your code however, it looks like you may not be using the timer function as intended. Is the code you have marked as " runs the form" actually in the form timer EEP or is this in a command file you are calling at start up? The form timer eep is set so that you give it a number in milliseconds and it runs that frequency automatically. (It also does not use any cpu time of consequence during the count down ) I.E. If you enter 60000, the EEP will run every hour. >From your code, I am not seeing how you are using the timer function. If you can further elaborate, we might be of further assistance. -Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: " ttc inc" < ttc [email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" < rbase -l@ rbase .com> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:54:25 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Form timer issue I use a timer form 24 hours per day. I do not remember having any issues with the screen saver, but have just turned one on to see if it does conflict. In the meantime, check to insure that you do not have stand by enabled in your screen saver. This will certainly stop the timer form. Right click on desktop properties screen saver tab power tab insure that system standby is set to "never" I will confirm if my screen saver conflicts with the timer. -Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: " Ramsour Mike" <Mike. Ramsour @ aksteel .com> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" < rbase -l@ rbase .com> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:34:19 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [RBASE-L] - Form timer issue Good morning: I created a timer form that does a countdown. Once a given amount of time passes the calling program closes the form and continues on its merry way. The form works exactly as intended except that if the computer is in screen saver mode the program stays paused until I log back into the R:BASE session. Here's the code that runs the form: SET VAR VDB TEXT = ( CVAL ( 'DATABASE' )) IF VDB <> 'ZANEDATA' AND # TIME BETWEEN '06:00:00' AND '06:10:00' THEN CLEAR VAR V % TIME , VSECS , VDISPLAY SET VAR VCRNT_TIME TIME = .# TIME SET VAR VTRGT_TIME TIME = ( RTIME ( 6 , 10 , 0 )) SET VAR VSECS INTEGER = (. VTRGT_TIME - . VCRNT_TIME ) SET VAR VDISPLAY INTEGER = . VSECS EDIT USING COUNTDOWN CLEAR VAR V % TIME , VSECS , VDISPLAY , VDB ENDIF And here's the EEP in the form: WHILE #TIME < . VTRGT_TIME THEN SET VAR VSECS INTEGER = (. VTRGT_TIME - .#TIME) SET VAR VDISPLAY INTEGER = . VSECS RECALC VARIABLES SKIP TO VDISPLAY ENDWHILE CLOSEWINDOW RETURN Is there some way around the screen saver issue or have I done something wrong? As always any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks - Mike Ramsour Confidentiality Notice This message is intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you are not the named addressee, you are not authorized to read, print, retain, copy or disseminate this message or any part of it. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and delete all copies of the message.
