Re: Screensaver on touch screen

2010-09-23 Thread Octavian Rasnita
e display is turned off, it means that it was not designed very well, exactly for the problems you found. --Octavian - Original Message - From: "Johan Vromans" To: Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 8:26 AM Subject: Re: Screensaver on touch screen Steffen Schuldenzucker

Re: Screensaver on touch screen

2010-09-22 Thread Johan Vromans
Steffen Schuldenzucker writes: > Why don't you write a screen saver that does something like this?: > Create a new window that covers the whole screen, then immediately start a > "real" screen saver. Exit on the first click/keystroke recieved. I'm not even sure there's a screensaver program invo

Re: Screensaver on touch screen

2010-09-22 Thread Steffen Schuldenzucker
On 09/22/2010 09:36 AM, Johan Vromans wrote: > Johan Vromans writes: > >> So, how can an application find out whether the screen saver is active, >> or, more precisely, the screen is blanked? Can I do this using the Win32 >> core API? > > The other half of the problem is how to effectively disable

RE: Screensaver on touch screen

2010-09-22 Thread Roode, Eric
On Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:32 PM, Johan Vromans > As you know by now, I'm writing some apps for my wife who got severely > handicapped last year. The apps are for a touch screen PC running > Windows. Sorry to hear that :-( [...] > So, how can an application find out whether the screen save

Re: Screensaver on touch screen

2010-09-22 Thread Johan Vromans
Johan Vromans writes: > So, how can an application find out whether the screen saver is active, > or, more precisely, the screen is blanked? Can I do this using the Win32 > core API? The other half of the problem is how to effectively disable responding to clicks. One way I can think of is to ch

Screensaver on touch screen

2010-09-21 Thread Johan Vromans
As you know by now, I'm writing some apps for my wife who got severely handicapped last year. The apps are for a touch screen PC running Windows. When the PC is idle for a while a screen saver (blanker) kicks in. The screen is usually blanked but alternatively it might show some some entertaining