access the display idle timer

[pauld avid]

I need to be know when the display goes into "suspend." It seems there is no
accurate way to query the state of the monitor so I am left with trying to
track the idleness of the system and compare that to the monitor idle time
out. There seem to be a few references on msdn documentation to system and
display idle timers but no mention of how to access them. Is there a way to
get this from the .net framework? I assume it would involve an api call. I
have been trying to use callntpowerinformation() to get the
SYSTEM_POWER_INFORMATION but with no luck. I have never used the windows API
before so any vb.net code samples using the api to get the display idel timer
would be greatly appreciated.

[AMercer]

Research handling the 'Microsoft.Win32.PowerModeChanged' event. This looks
like what you want, but I have no experience with it, and a quick look at the
documentation left me puzzled. Good luck.

"pauld avid" wrote:

I need to be know when the display goes into "suspend." It seems there is no
accurate way to query the state of the monitor so I am left with trying to
track the idleness of the system and compare that to the monitor idle time
out. There seem to be a few references on msdn documentation to system and
display idle timers but no mention of how to access them. Is there a way to
get this from the .net framework? I assume it would involve an api call. I
have been trying to use callntpowerinformation() to get the
SYSTEM_POWER_INFORMATION but with no luck. I have never used the windows API
before so any vb.net code samples using the api to get the display idel timer
would be greatly appreciated.

[AMercer]

or not - sorry - i was looking at the wrong thing.

"AMercer" wrote:

Research handling the 'Microsoft.Win32.PowerModeChanged' event. This looks
like what you want, but I have no experience with it, and a quick look at the
documentation left me puzzled. Good luck.

"pauld avid" wrote:

I need to be know when the display goes into "suspend." It seems there is no
accurate way to query the state of the monitor so I am left with trying to
track the idleness of the system and compare that to the monitor idle time
out. There seem to be a few references on msdn documentation to system and
display idle timers but no mention of how to access them. Is there a way to
get this from the .net framework? I assume it would involve an api call. I
have been trying to use callntpowerinformation() to get the
SYSTEM_POWER_INFORMATION but with no luck. I have never used the windows API
before so any vb.net code samples using the api to get the display idel timer
would be greatly appreciated.

[pauld avid]

Ya, I do use the power mode change event but it does not fire when the
monitor goes into standby. Thanks though.

Paul

"AMercer" wrote:

or not - sorry - i was looking at the wrong thing.