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Re: "Kicking" the screensaver/display timers



Correct - IOPMAssertionTypeNoDisplaySleep, as written today, will not keep the ScreenSaver off. This is a bug & an oversight.

You can expect a future release of OS X to also keep the ScreenSaver off when NoDisplaySleep is asserted.

-Ethan

On Jul 22, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Shayne Wissler wrote:

Thanks again Ethan for your help. This code has the "kicking" effect I
was after for *display sleep*, but has no effect on the screensaver:

IOPMAssertionID assertionID;
IOReturn err = IOPMAssertionCreate(kIOPMAssertionTypeNoDisplaySleep,
kIOPMAssertionLevelOn, &assertionID);
err = IOPMAssertionRelease(assertionID);


I can probably get by with just this by disabling the screensaver, but
it'd be nice if the screensaver could be "kicked" as well. Any ideas?


Shayne

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Ethan Bold <email@hidden> wrote:
Check out IOPMAssertionCreate() with type kIOPMAssertionTypeNoDisplaySleep.
This is new in 10.5.


It's described in the 10.5 Darwin release notes here:
http://developer.apple.com/releasenotes/Darwin/RN-IOKitPowerManagment/index.html

And discussed in practice here on a cocoa mailing list:
http://www.cocoabuilder.com/archive/message/cocoa/2008/6/19/210697

-Ethan

On Jul 18, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Shayne Wissler wrote:

Hello,

I need an API call/approach for "kicking" the the
display-sleep/screensaver timers, as if the user had moved the mouse
or pressed a key. I need a program to be able to wake up the display
and/or stop the screensaver, without having the user interact with the
mouse or keyboard. (E.g., for an app used in a classroom situation to
broadcast a message to a Mac hanging on a wall that happened to be in
sleep mode).


Any pointers to a relevant API would be appreciated.


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References: 
 >"Kicking" the screensaver/display timers (From: "Shayne Wissler" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: "Kicking" the screensaver/display timers (From: Ethan Bold <email@hidden>)
 >Re: "Kicking" the screensaver/display timers (From: "Shayne Wissler" <email@hidden>)



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