How to put the display into the screen saver mode in LabWindows/CVI?

[nqn827]

Does anyone know how to put the display into the screen saver mode using LabWindows/CVI?

TIA,

nqn

[RobertoBozzolo]

Try this:

LaunchExecutable ("C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\yourScreenSaver.scr //s");

If you want to activate the defined screen saver in the system instead of a fixed one, you need to retrieve first the path to the screen saver executable:

RegReadString (REGKEY_HKCU, "Control Panel\\Desktop", "SCRNSAVE.EXE", file, MAX_PATHNAME_LEN, &stringSize);

[Wim S]

Hello Roberto,

just out of curiousity: what's the "//s" doing in the command?

[RobertoBozzolo]

The "/s" command-line option executes the screen saver. If omitted, the screen saver settings dialog box is presented on the screen. See this MSDN entry for detaiils.