Codes related to the system

[ameedoo3000]

I want to know the codes of the related works
1- Turn on and Turn off monitor
2- Shutdown and Restart the computer
3- play audio or movies files on the form

 

[Mike Lewis]

1. I don't know any way of physically switching off a monitor via code. In fact, I feel sure it's not possible.

2. To shutdown and restart the computer, you can use the InitiateShutdown API call. Details here, including FoxPro sample:

https://github.com/VFPX/Win32API/blob/master/libraries/advapi32/InitiateShutdown.md

3. To play audio or movies on form, drop an OLEContainer control onto the form. In the Insert Object dialogue, choose "Create from File", then browse to the audio or video file that you want to play.

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

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[ameedoo3000]

I want to play the audio or video file with the code

 

[Chris Miller]

1. I agree, you have to rely on todays standard of monitors "going to sleep" when no signal is coming after you shutdown a computer.
2. Mike gave you a solution
3. See the VFP solutions sample 'Play multimedia files using MCI commands'

Chriss

 

[Mike Lewis]

I want to play the audio or video file with the code

Yes, I understood that.

Set the control's AutoActivate property to 0. Then, at the point where you want to play the file, execute the the object's DoVerb method, passing 0 as a parameter. This will execute the file's default action, which, for a movie or audio file, is usually "play".

Mike

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[ameedoo3000]

Thank you everyone very very much

 

[ameedoo3000]

The video with audio works without the audio

 

[Mike Gagnon]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/713498/turn-on-off-monitor

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