screen saver

[rommeltm00]

hello guys

how can i activate/create a screen saver in vfp

regards

 

[Mike Lewis]

I don't know how to create a screen saver in VFP (why would you want to?), but invoking it is easy. Just run the SCR file with "/S" on the command line, for example like so:

RUN MySaver.SCR /S



Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[rommeltm00]

mike

all i want is to quit the program when the user is not on his/her desk on for a while, just to prevent corruptions of files.

thanks and God bless

 

[Mike Lewis]

Invoking a screen save doesn't quit the program. It only prevents other people from accessing the computer (and only if it is password-protected).

If that's what you want, there seems no point in doing this from within your application. The user can set the screen saver to invoke automatically when the computer is idle.

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[Olaf Doschke]

If he creates a screen saver he can do whatever he wants, also shut down an application. I'd rather not do so, but it would be possible.

You only need to find a way or policy to not allow users to turn screen saver off or chose another screen saver.

I'd rather implement an inactivity timer in your app instead of a seperate programm. You'd have much better control about what to do than from a screen saver running as a seperate process.

That said Calvin Hsia has shown how to do a vfp screensaver here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/calvin_hsia/archive/2004/10/04/237733.aspx

Bye, Olaf.

 

[rommeltm00]

many thanks to you guys ill try to visit the site

God bless