Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard API for blocking screensaver/idle?
Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard API for blocking screensaver/idle?
- Subject: Re: 10.6 Snow Leopard API for blocking screensaver/idle?
- From: Nathan Sims <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:40:21 -0800
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#qa/qa2004/qa1160.html
- Nate
On Feb 14, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote:
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> Le 14 févr. 2011 à 23:03, Eric Wing a écrit :
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>> Is there an API in Snow Leopard to suppress/block/prevent the
>> screensaver from coming up?
>
> The new API is supposed to be IOPMAssertionCreateWithName() with kIOPMAssertionTypeNoDisplaySleep, but AFAIK, it does not prevent screen saver (at least it wasn't the last time I try).
> So, I think you're stuck with the UpdateSystemActivity(UsrActivity) function.
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>> (I work with a lot of games/multimedia
>> where I don't want the screen to go to screensaver and the input
>> devices in use may not reset the idle counter.) For some reason I
>> thought there might have been a new API for this, but I can't find it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
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> -- Jean-Daniel
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