Par2: Checking for screensaver - API call 1998-04-26 -- Stephen Bottomley This asumes 32bit
SystemParametersInfo(UNSIGNED,UNSIGNED,PVOID,UNSIGNED),BOOL,PASCAL,
RAW,NAME('SystemParametersInfoA')
SPI_GETSCREENSAVEACTIVE EQUATE(16)
SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE EQUATE(17)
SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE EQUATE(0002h)
IsActive BOOL
To detect if the screen saver is enabled, use this:
SystemParametersInfo( SPI_GETSCREENSAVEACTIVE,0,ADDRESS(IsActive),0)
On return, the variable IsActive will be TRUE if the screen saver setting is enabled in
the System control panel applet and FALSE if the screen saver setting is not enabled.
To disable the screen saver setting, call SystemParametersInfo() with this:
SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE,FALSE,0,SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE)
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