Screen Saver

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Hi groups,

Are there any ways to create a screen saver that loaded when CF .NET enabled device idle for a specified time? I tried to search this group using "screen saver" and "windows service" with no luck

Thank you for your advic

Abd Shomad
 
I don't see the point - Screen savers were designed to stop an image being burnt onto the monitor, but that was only a problem with old CRT monitors, not small, new TFT screens. PocketPC's just turn "off" after a certain time, to conserve battery - having a screensaver would just use up the battery.
 
It is not to "TURN OFF MONITOR" to save battery power. What i mean by "Screen Saver" is somekind of animation that run automatically when device is not used for (lets say) 4 minutes. The kind of animation could be "3D Flower Box", "Comic Strips", "Scrooling Text" etc...

Thanks for the answer
 
CE doesn't support screen savers natively because, as pointed out by another
poster, CE is designed to run in low-lower situations. If there is
inactivity, it makes more sense to shut the monitor off.

If you want to replicate "screen saver" functionality, you need to implement
a inactivity timer and launch your app when it expires. With a customer
platform that you build yourself, you can simply replace the power
management module so it lauches your app instead of powerig down. With a PPC
this isn't going to be easy because you can't simply replace parts of the
OS.

-Chris


Abd Shomad said:
Hi groups,

Are there any ways to create a screen saver that loaded when CF .NET
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enabled device idle for a specified time? I tried to search this group using
"screen saver" and "windows service" with no luck.
 
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