Does anyone know whether it is possible to exit a screensaver
programmatically, i.e., from within the screensaver code,
but *without* exiting the System Preferences, if the screensaver was
run from System Preferences?
I tried
[NSApp terminate: self]
but that also makes System Preferences
On Sep 23, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Gabriel Zachmann wrote:
Does anyone know whether it is possible to exit a screensaver
programmatically, i.e., from within the screensaver code,
but *without* exiting the System Preferences, if the screensaver was
run from System Preferences?
It's possible; you'
Post a mouse down event and the sceensaver engine will remove it for
you.
That is a good idea -- except I have no idea how to do that.
Could you give me a hint how to achieve that? (class / method names?)
(Sorry, for asking shuch a dumbquestion.)
BTW: just a mouse move event would suffice, is t
On Sep 24, 2009, at 2:14 AM, Gabriel Zachmann wrote:
I want to catch a few key events in my screen saver (like cursor
keys, space, return),
but if the user clicks any other key, I want the screen saver to
exit, just like other screen savers that don't catch any keyboard
events.
In that c
In that case, then you should pass the unwanted event to the
superclass, which will handle the event in that case.
Ah, you mean like this, I suppose?
[super keyDown: theEvent];
That seems to work like a charm. Thanks a million!
(For the record, I thought that user code is not
If you send the unwanted events to ScreenSaverView parent of your view
then it should terminate gracefully.
[super theEvent];
-- john
On Sep 24, 2009, at 1:14 AM, Gabriel Zachmann wrote:
Post a mouse down event and the sceensaver engine will remove it
for you.
That is a good idea -- exc
