How do you make the monitor "wake up" from the screen saver?

[FastLearner]

I've written a nifty script that runs in line with our system alarm printer. (I work on an Intecom E-14 PBX.) All the alarms that hit the printer also display to the screen in my work area in color coded format. It also pages/emails out on certain alarms, plays wave files on others, and even keeps a daily alarm log.

The one thing I CAN'T get it to do is wake up from the screen saver when it receives an input! I don't want my screen to get burn in but I need to see when activity occurs. Does anyone know of some trick to accomplish this?

FYI: sendkeystr doesn't work

 

[mrnoisy]

Have you looked under the FAQs

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?spid=448&sfid=3266

 

[FastLearner]

OK! FINE! I GIVE UP!!! I'll use the minimize/restore already!

Here's what I finally settled on. Will wakeup only if no alarms received for greater than 10 minutes and it remembers the last time it wokeup. That keeps things happy...

integer lastwake=$ltime     ;Global Variable

main
 ...
 ...
 Call MonitorWakup
 ...
 ...
endproc


proc MonitorWakeup
    if ($ltime - lastwake) > 600
       winminimize $PWMAINWIN
       winmaximize $PWMAINWIN
       lastwake=$ltime
    endif
endproc

 

[ArchTelecom]

OK FastLearner, this has really sparked my interest. I wish to download a copy of your script for experimentation purposes. How can I obtain a copy?

Richard

 

[Mpking]

GRC.com wrote an interface to Microsoft's API calls. Not sure if any of this helps you guys. (Most likely not)

http://grc.com/wizmo/wizmo.htm