well I havn't bothered myself, but generally when home I have the
laptop hooked up to at least 2 external hard drives, a usb scanner,
printer and fan unit so battery is not a issue for me though I'd
have to make the stuff go away and the system gets hot with games going.
At 02:57 a.m. 16/06/2011, you wrote:
wow.this has generated quite a bit of discussion. guess there are
lots of people interested in this.Maybe it's just me who thinks so,
but if someone made such a program and it worked successfully, the
programmer could probably sell it for a few bucks and make some
decent amount of cash. not only will people want this for piece of
mind, but also like some of you pointed out, to save on battery
power. laptop batteries die real fast as some of you probably know
hehehe. really sucks that there doesn't seem to be a way to do it
though. I'd try that external monitor trick, but I've no idea where
I can find the manual for this laptop. anyone know if there's a site
that contains laptop manuals?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Ward" <thomasward1...@gmail.com>
To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 5:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Audyssey] A question for Aprone
Hi Yohandy,
I don't believe what you want to do is possible based on my
understanding of the Windows API. You can put a laptop display to
sleep to save battery power etc, but Windows is designed to wake up
the display as soon as someone presses a key or moves the mouse
around. You forget, I think, that someone sighted would have no use
for such a program as you describe, and therefore that functionality
was never built into the Windows API to begin with let alone programs
to disable the display.
There is however an alternative way to get what you want. Someone
could lower the brightness on the display, darken it, so that the text
is harder to read unless you are very close to the display. That might
prevent any snooping over your shoulder.
HTH
On 6/14/11, Yohandy <yohand...@gmail.com> wrote:
Or to anyone that might know the answer really. This isn't really audio game
based, but I feel it's important enough to bring it to everyone's attention.
Reason I mentioned Aprone specifically is that since he enjoys working on
small projects, then perhaps he's already created something like this in the
past. I'm looking for a program that's able to turn off my laptop's display.
when I go somewhere with my laptop, I get a little paranoid due to the fact
I've no idea if anyone's reading what I'm doing over my shoulder. thing is
this laptop won't allow me to turn off my display. at least not that I know
of. can this actually be done with software? I know there are programs that
can turn the display off, but as soon as one starts typing the displays
switches itself back on. this of course, makes the programs useless. I'm
willing to pay anyone that can code this as I've been looking for such a
program for a very long time and can't find one. I think it's a real
necessity for us blind computer users for piece of mind purposes. thanks for
any help you guys can provide!
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