
Activating the Win95 Screen Saver
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> I am trying to write my 1st Visual Basic program (hence newcomer) to activate
> the Win 95 screen saver but I am having problem get it to do what I wanted.
> The problem I have is the screen saver name. If I change the screen saver's
> extension to 'exe', the program will work fine. But if I leave the screen
> saver extension as 'scr', I get a 'invalid procedure call' error.
> What am I missing? Am I using the right technique to write this program?
> This isn't quite what you're looking for, but it may help. In the April 23 edition of PC
Magazine there is a utility called SCInvoke which is used to invoke the screen saver. You can
get the program and source code from :
http:\\www.pcmag.com
I don't know where they are located, but the files you want are:
SCINVOKE.EXE--Program
SCINVOKE.TXT--Documentation
SCINVOKE.ZIP--Prog, Doc and Source Code
This may give you an idea of how to invoke the screen saver and hopefully help fix your problem.
One problem is that it was written in Visual C++. If you don't know C it might give you
headaches trying to figure it out. Good Luck!
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Paul Gibson
Technology Service Corporation, Washington Operations