2012/9/20 J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>:
> On 9/20/12 10:30 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>>
>> I agree with Richmond. I cannot think of a case where I would want to
>> lock a screen multiple times and then incrementally unlock the
>> screen, knowing that the screen is still locked! I can think of
>> examples where I would want to lock then unlock the screen while the
>> script was still executing, but not multiple times stacked.
>
>
>
> It's necessary often. The useful behavior dates back 25 years. When a called
> handler needs to lock and unlock the screen it shouldn't need to worry about
> whether it was called from a handler while the screen is unlocked, or one
> where the screen is already locked and shouldn't be changed.


+1

Another context is using a third party library which does use the lockscreen.

As a user of this library, it will always works whatever your calling
handler has
locked or not the screen.

Thierry

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