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Re: Screen Blanking-duh...


  • Subject: Re: Screen Blanking-duh...
  • From: "Marc K. Myers" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 08:34:50 -0400
  • Organization: [very little]

> Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:47:18 -0500
> Subject: Screen Blanking-duh...
> From: Dan Turney <email@hidden>
> To: <email@hidden>
>
> Is it possible to blank or severely dim the screen and restore it at will?
> I'm guessing no, but just hoping against hope...
>
> We have a script to take images from a hot folder and display them in
> Photoshop using full screen mode - the dynamic nature of the hot folder
> precludes us from using an off-the-shelf slideshow program (maybe one's out
> there that doesn't require static input up front?).
>
> Using Prefab Player we type two "F"s as Photoshop shortcuts to get from
> Standard Screen Mode to Full Screen Mode With Menu Bar to the desired Full
> Screen Mode, and we'd like to hide the clunky first two stages of this and
> show only the Full Screen Mode. Any hope?
>
> Thanks very much...

This isn't exactly what you asked for but it may be close enough for jazz:

tell application "Finder" to set visible of process "Photoshop" to false
-- do your Photoshop stuff
tell application "Finder" to set visible of process "Photoshop" to true

The only question is: Do your Photoshop commands restore it to visibility?

Marc K. Myers <email@hidden>
http://AppleScriptsToGo.com
4020 W.220th St.
Fairview Park, OH 44126
(440) 331-1074

[4/26/01 8:34:05 AM]


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