Aborting screen saver? Hiding from alt-tab?

[Hernán Freschi]

Hi all,
I'm still working on my Caller ID software. As it sits in the traybar
and basically does nothing, after a few minutes the screen saver kicks
in and it still works, but I have to go move the mouse or something to
actually see what's being displayed.
Is there a way I can force the screen saver to stop while my program
pops up its window? And later resume it normally (with it's default
timeout, I don't care)

Also, how do I hide my app from the alt-tab list? It doesn't show in the
task bar but if I do alt-tab and accidentaly select it, a nasty blank
window opens and I can't make it go away.

hjf

[Matthew Smith]

In article <e9**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>,
Hernan Freschi <hj********@hjf.com.ar> wrote:

I'm still working on my Caller ID software. As it sits in the traybar
and basically does nothing, after a few minutes the screen saver kicks
in and it still works, but I have to go move the mouse or something to
actually see what's being displayed.
Is there a way I can force the screen saver to stop while my program
pops up its window? And later resume it normally (with it's default
timeout, I don't care)

What would you do when a password is required to cancel the screensaver?
Wouldn't it just prompt you for the password and not show your window.

Perhaps you should develop a screensaver that displays the details you
want to see. It would be less instrusive.

[Hernán Freschi]

Matthew Smith wrote:

What would you do when a password is required to cancel the screensaver?
Wouldn't it just prompt you for the password and not show your window.
Nothing. This app is for me, and I don't use a password with the
screensaver.
Perhaps you should develop a screensaver that displays the details you
want to see. It would be less instrusive.

What if the screen is in power-save already? It wouldn't even display
the screensaver. That's why I wanted to do it that way. Besides I need
it to display the info while I'm working too, and having two different
windows for the same output... that's kind of too much work for a
weekend app.

I'm thinking, maybe making the mouse cursor move a little would make the
system to trigger an event which will close the current screen saver -
and maybe if I'm lucky, the power saving function.

hjf