> Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 16:51:38 +1100
> Subject: [PCI] very clever screen saver wanted...
> From: David Elmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I run 3 screens at the moment on a 7600, one on the onboard, another on two
> old crappy but faithful video pci cards. I want a screen saver that can tell
> when one of the screens has not been used a while and just operate on that
> one, leaving the others affected. This might be a tall ask as my 3 operate
> as one screen. Blackwatch (a saver) treats it as such. And of course, the
> energy control panel is not any more discriminating. That leaves my hand on
> on off buttons or bright/contrast controls to do this manually...
>
> Two of my screens are easy to turn down with a nob but the newest and
> sharpest, the 17", is one with the video machine type press button causing
> on screen navigation... more troublesome to quickly turn down brightness and
> contrast, hence my question.
>
> Hang on, just thought of something...
>
> Made a pic of blackness 1024*768 that I drop from a collapsed state on the
> screen concerned... but there is still the title bar... (and *having* to
> have a program open to run this, tho this is ok as I mostly have it
> running).
>
> But... yes, in the PS tools palette, the right most bottom button will full
> screen it. um... maybe if I made an applescript to keyboard trigger the all
> black. Will think about this later, my brain is hurting now...
>
> Ah... an improvement on above: no need to have such a big pic, 1 px * 1px
> black will do and full screening blackens all. Maybe there is an idea here
> to develop a particular screen screen saver?
>
> Please forgive me, I forgot to take my pills today.. but my orig question
> still stands...
>
> David Elmo
For anyone interested: I added a little enhancement to the "tiny black-dot
at full screen" technique to do the job manually: I made an applescript with
a key command to open the little gif in the first place (then one must use
the full screen command in PS to operate it on and off). The script is
simple:
tell application "Finder"
activate
select file "blackDot.jpg"
open selection
end tell
and save it as "manualBlack\B+O" and put it into OSA menu finder folder.
Then it activates by simply command + control + B; which, btw, is quite a
useful way of opening the image program (in my case Photoshop)
David Elmo
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