How can my program know when the screen saver is activated or deactivated?
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I basically have a program that sits in the background (using a tray icon), and I want it to do stuff whenever the screen saver is activated or deactivated. How do I go about doing this? Does Windows send a message to every top-level window when that happens? What message? I can't seem to find anything very helpful on MSDN.
"Before Windows starts the screensaver, it broadcasts a WM_SYSCOMMAND message with WPARAM set to SC_SCREENSAVE. If any program catches the message and returns true, the screensaver will not start."
I'm not sure that event can be trapped in a simple way.
But you can determine if a screensaver is running with SystemParametersInfo(), specifying SPI_GETSCREENSAVERRUNNING (Google for this). Perhaps you can set an interval that checks for this condition.
Good luck.
But you can determine if a screensaver is running with SystemParametersInfo(), specifying SPI_GETSCREENSAVERRUNNING (Google for this). Perhaps you can set an interval that checks for this condition.
Good luck.
You may be able to set a boolean when the screen saver is running, and then use something like the following (from a C++Builder program, so modify accordingly):
void __fastcall TForm1::WndProc(TMessage & msg) { if (msg.Msg==WM_ACTIVATEAPP && msg.WParam==TRUE && screenSaverRunningC) { //do whatever... screenSaverRunningC = false; }This topic is closed to new replies.
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