Re: Screen saver

It's beginning to look as though there may have been some problem in the
older versions of SwiftForth that is fixed in 2.2.2.9, since that's now all
that distinguishes the reports of working code from the one with the
problem.

Cheers,
Elizabeth

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com
> [mailto:sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com] On Behalf Of Gene LeFave
> Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 6:14 AM
> To: sftalk_at_forth.com
> Subject: [sftalk] Re: Screen saver
>
> I'm running on XP SP1, and it works ok.
>
> Gene
>
> > Thanks for your quick response Leon,
> > I am using Windows XP sp1 and SwiftForth 2.0.0.3 / 2.2..2.5
> , and have
> > the same response on all XP machines that I have tried on!
> >
> > Is that the OS that you tried on?
> >
> > addendum: I have just tried on Windows 2000 and it works ok!
> > Unfortunately I need it to work on XP - so anybody have any
> ideas to
> > enable it to work on XP?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Rob
> >
> > Leon Wagner wrote:
> >
> > >Works fine for me:
> > >
> > >4 IMPORT: SystemParametersInfo
> > >
> > >VARIABLE PV
> > >
> > >SPI_GETSCREENSAVETIMEOUT 0 PV 0 SystemParametersInfo . 1 PV ? 600
> > >
> > >SPI_SETSCREENSAVETIMEOUT 60 0 0 SystemParametersInfo . 1
> > >
> > >SPI_GETSCREENSAVETIMEOUT 0 PV 0 SystemParametersInfo PV ? 60
> > >
> > >
> > >First call returned timeout of 600. I set it to 60 then
> read it back
> > >and it's 60. Note non-zero return codes (1) in all cases.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>-----Original Message-----
> > >>From: sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com [mailto:sftalk-bounce_at_forth.com]On
> > >>Behalf Of Rob
> > >>Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:46 AM
> > >>To: sftalk_at_forth.com
> > >>Subject: [sftalk] Screen saver
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>Hello everyone,
> > >>I am currently 'trying' to set the screen saver timeout using the
> > >>*SystemParametersInfo *function located at
> > >>
> > >>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/s
> > >>
> > >>
> > >ysinfo/base/systemparametersinfo.asp
> > >
> > >
> > >>I can read the value ok but I am having trouble setting
> the value, I
> > >>keep returning a zero which is an error.
> > >>A typical segment of code for setting is
> > >>
> > >>SPI_SETSCREENSAVETIMEOUT 60 0 0 SystemParametersInfo
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>The following code for reading works ok
> > >>
> > >>variable pv
> > >>SPI_GETSCREENSAVETIMEOUT 0 pv 0 SystemParametersInfo
> > >>pv @ .
> > >>60
> > >>
> > >>Anybody have any ideas on the correct way to set the value?
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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