news@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News) (02/13/90)
Archive-name: os2-screen-blanker/11-Feb-90 Original-posting-by: news@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News) Original-subject: OS/2 Screen Blanker Archive-site: mtsg.ubc.ca [128.189.103.1] Archive-files: os2:scrnbl12.zip Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) note that it doesn't work with this month's UPDATE to 1.2, and will hang your system requiring a reboot when the blanking occurs. From: ballard@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard) Path: cheddar.cc.ubc.ca!ballard A version modified to work with the new release can be obtained via anonymous FTP from mtsg.ubc.ca (128.189.103.1). "get os2:scrnbl12.zip" in binary mode. (For the curious: in release 1.1, in order to be able to use the mouse to "unblank" the screen, it was necessary to explicitly open the $mouse dev after doing the VioPopup used to blank the screen. I don't know if this was necessary with the first version 1.2, but I left the code in. With the new release of 1.2, this call to DosOpen hangs somewhere inside the system, but it all works OK with the call removed.) Alan Ballard | Internet: Alan_Ballard@mtsg.ubc.ca University Computing Services | Bitnet: USERAB1@UBCMTSG University of British Columbia | Phone: 604-228-3074 Vancouver B.C. Canada V6R 1W5 | Fax: 604-228-5116