Slideshow as a Screen Saver

[hammondr]

Originally Posted by Opus4

When the screen saver shouldn't be allowed to kick in, SetScreenSaverTimeout(GetScreenSaverTimeout()) is used to prevent the screen saver from starting. Usually, it would be called during any transition from one image to the next during a slideshow, or other similar events when the UI isn't expecting user input & you don't want the screen saver to start.

OK, I'll add that to the SageMC 16x9 slideshow logic right after LoadImage on the next pic.

Originally Posted by Opus4

AllowScreenSaver is true when the screen saver should be allowed to turn on or continue. If it isn't defined, then it won't be true, so you may not see it defined at all for some menu that references the same section of code that the screen saver/slideshow/song info display uses.

Better yet, does this mean I can just set a new attribute "AllowScreenSaver" in the PictureSlideshow menu and set that to "false"? I tried that, and I don't think it worked.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by hammondr

Better yet, does this mean I can just set a new attribute "AllowScreenSaver" in the PictureSlideshow menu and set that to "false"? I tried that, and I don't think it worked.

I'm not sure if I'm answering this properly, but... "AllowScreenSaver" is just the name of a variable that I happened to use in the default STV to track whether to allow the screen saver to run; it does not have any special meaning to SageTV when used on its own.

- Andy

[hammondr]

Originally Posted by Opus4

"AllowScreenSaver" is just the name of a variable that I happened to use in the default STV to track whether to allow the screen saver to run; it does not have any special meaning to SageTV when used on its own.

OK, that makes sense. Your default STV makes use of the AllowScreenSaver somewhere that I didn't see, and the STV I'm using (SageMC 16x9 6.13a beta) probably doesn't.

I'm trying to do the set(get()) we discussed earlier to get the affect I want.