[python-win32] How to say windows run screensaver?

[Mark Hammond]

On 24/01/2009 9:34 AM, Jonathan Rivera wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> i need to run a program to ask for a password, but i need this program
> will be the only accessible window on the screen, so i want to lock
> the screen but no my window.
> i see an example in vb and it say i may to use this:
>
> ' Tell the system a screen saver is running.
> SystemParametersInfo SPI_SCREENSAVERRUNNING, True, prev_value, 0
>
> The problem is that when i use:
>
> win32gui.SystemParametersInfo(win32con.SPI_SCREENSAVERRUNNING, True)
>
> it say: Action 97 is not supported yet
>
> Do you know if are any other way to do the same thing?

Windows documents SPI_SETSCREENSAVERRUNNING as existing on windows 9x 
only, so pywin32 hasn't bothered with support for it. 
SPI_GETSCREENSAVERRUNNING is supported, but that doesn't sound like what 
you need.

You could try using ctypes...

Cheers,

Mark