Check for Screensaver

[mother9987]

Is there an easy way to check if the screensaver is currently running, or even if the monitor has gone to standby mode?

I saw a script to change the monitor into or out of standby, but didn't see one to check what mode it's currently in...

[evilertoaster]

Using WMI-

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default....n32_desktop.asp

ScreenSaverActive should work.

[Zedna]

Another simpler way using:

SystemParametersInfo & SPI_GETSCREENSAVEACTIVE

[mother9987]

@EvilToaster:

Thanks for the link. It looked really useful until I got something working. It appears to actually only tell you if there is a screensaver set for each user logged into the computer. (It returns 0 if you have screensaver set to "none" and -1 otherwise.)

$objWMIService = ObjGet("winmgmts:\\" & @ComputerName & "\root\cimv2")
$Screensaver = $objWMIService.ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Desktop")

For $objDesktop In $ScreenSaver
    ConsoleWrite( $objDesktop.Name & '.ScreenSaverActive=' & $objDesktop.ScreenSaverActive & @CRLF )
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Which looked like the parameters I saw someone using in the 3rd post down on this thread. With 16 being the code for GETSCREENSAVEACTIVE... but alas, I get nothing when I look at the value.

I'm not sure whether your call is going to return just whether a screen saver is set, or if one is actively saving the screen at this moment as I apparently cannot get the syntax right.

@Everyone:

Thanks for the responses so far, but I'm still having problems and would appreciate any more help.

[Zedna]

Dim $ScreenSaverActive
DllCall("user32","int","SystemParametersInfo","int",16,"int",0,"int",$ScreenSaverActive,"int",0)
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But I didn't check others, only corrected your bad syntax.

Look at other examples for DllCall

[mother9987]

Syntax for DllCall should be:

$ScreenSaverActive = DllCall("user32","int","SystemParametersInfo","int",16,"int",0,"int",0,"int",0)
ConsoleWrite( "DllCall returns '" & $ScreenSaverActive[3] & "'")

But I didn't check others, only corrected your bad syntax.

Look at other examples for DllCall

Thanks for the syntax fix. It's been a long while since I've written anything in AutoIT and I forgot much.

Something's still not right, but I believe it's the parameters I'm passing to the DllCall and I'll try looking into that myself for a bit before giving up and asking for more help as the code itself is working.

[fastnick1oo]

Very old topic, but... whatever!

This code'll work:

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Global Const $SPI_GETSCREENSAVERRUNNING = 114

$state = DllStructCreate("int")
DllStructSetData($state, 1, 0)
DllCall("user32.dll", "int", "SystemParametersInfo", "int", $SPI_GETSCREENSAVERRUNNING, "int", 0,  "ptr", DllStructGetPtr($state), "int", 0)
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Edited June 24, 2008 by fastnick1oo