Setting ScreenSaver

[Christopher Burr]

I'm trying to set the user's screensaver in the .NET world...

In Win32 I could use a combination of setting the screen saver name via the
registry and then setting the time and active status using
SystemParametersInfo. And the system would use the new settings.

Now that I'm trying to do it in .NET, I found that SystemParametersInfo does
not exist. I also found I can detect when the screensaver settings have
been changed, but what I cannot find out is how to cause the system to know
that the screensaver settings have changed...

Anyone have any ideas?

--
Chris Burr
cb***@kcc.com

[Shishir Kumar Mishra]

You still can use those features through P/Invoke.

Add namespace System.Runtime.InteropServices in your code and then declare
[DllImport("user32", CharSet=CharSet.Auto)]
unsafe public static extern short SystemParametersInfo (int uiAction, int
uiParam, int* pvParam, int fWinIni);
HTH
Shishir Kumar Mishra
Agni Software (P) Ltd.
www.agnisoft.com

"Christopher Burr" <cb***@kcc.com> wrote in message
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I'm trying to set the user's screensaver in the .NET world...

In Win32 I could use a combination of setting the screen saver name via the registry and then setting the time and active status using
SystemParametersInfo. And the system would use the new settings.

Now that I'm trying to do it in .NET, I found that SystemParametersInfo does not exist. I also found I can detect when the screensaver settings have
been changed, but what I cannot find out is how to cause the system to know that the screensaver settings have changed...

Anyone have any ideas?

--
Chris Burr
cb***@kcc.com

[Christopher Burr]

Yea, was just hoping that I could avoid going to unmanaged code.

--
Chris Burr
cb***@kcc.com
"Shishir Kumar Mishra" <sh*****@agnisoft.com> wrote in message
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You still can use those features through P/Invoke.

Add namespace System.Runtime.InteropServices in your code and then declare [DllImport("user32", CharSet=CharSet.Auto)]
unsafe public static extern short SystemParametersInfo (int uiAction, int
uiParam, int* pvParam, int fWinIni);
HTH
Shishir Kumar Mishra
Agni Software (P) Ltd.
www.agnisoft.com

"Christopher Burr" <cb***@kcc.com> wrote in message
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I'm trying to set the user's screensaver in the .NET world...

In Win32 I could use a combination of setting the screen saver name via

the

registry and then setting the time and active status using
SystemParametersInfo. And the system would use the new settings.

Now that I'm trying to do it in .NET, I found that SystemParametersInfo

does

not exist. I also found I can detect when the screensaver settings have
been changed, but what I cannot find out is how to cause the system to

know

that the screensaver settings have changed...

Anyone have any ideas?

--
Chris Burr
cb***@kcc.com

[Maniaque |CIA|]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:17:18 -0600, Christopher Burr <cb***@kcc.com> wrote:

Yea, was just hoping that I could avoid going to unmanaged code.

And what's the problem? Use the registry and make it up through it!

--
.... blood, sugar, sex, magic ...
CIA = Caught In Action programmer

[Christopher Burr]

Only problem then is that the effects don't take place until the next login
=(

--
Chris Burr
cb***@kcc.com
"Maniaque |CIA|" <cape[a]fromru[dot]com> wrote in message
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On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:17:18 -0600, Christopher Burr <cb***@kcc.com> wrote:

Yea, was just hoping that I could avoid going to unmanaged code.

And what's the problem? Use the registry and make it up through it!

--
... blood, sugar, sex, magic ...
CIA = Caught In Action programmer